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opleti CAIRO, Jan. 3 ( AP) — Hie United States 
jobc^sks Ibsing its allies in the Middle East and 
*>11 «q\frica unless it stands op to the Soviet Union, 

9 Parmer U.$. Secretary of State Henry Kis- 
umiswinger said Saturday, 
ai jnjjj isn't tolerable that the Soviet Union 
led, c3nd its proxy forces engage in expansion in 
te s^3frica and die Middle East without opposi- 
by ih f Tion,” Kissinger told reporters. “Our friends 
>e huOriU become dubious." 
s. |[ J Kissinger, who returned Friday from a 
the ^igbtening visit to Somalia, said his trip there 
Tnderiined tbe need for American acrioa 
rindn ^ exe is a country threatened by heavily 
ill Wmed neighbor (Ethiopia) in whidi there is 
ne( j much Soviet equipment (and) Soviet proxy 
^ ^forces including Cubans, East Germans and 
sp .f^South Yemenis. “It is a country located on a 
, . „ “strategic point on the mouth of the 7nrf«n 
' a mtTt! Ocean and the Red Sea." 

' Kissinger, on a “private" tour of Egypt, 
as arc (Israel, Saudi Arabia, Oman and .Morocco, 

1 SQt'net on Saturday with Egyptian Vice- 
:J wel president Hosni Mubarak arid Egyptian 
Calmpefense Minister Ahmad Badawi. The 
i former secretary of state, who plans to report 

Htdato die Reagan administration said he added 
and jSomalia to his schedule Thursday at the urg- 
m edging of President Anwar Sadat, who fre- 
quently calls for increased U.S. opposition to 
die Soviet Union in die Middle East and 
>resfflife AWfl_ . 

ilo pros ' K fa fflng ftr has said h#> favor* imd Arnmnw 
‘ oS&naaJitary presence m or do se to the Indian 
of Iks Ocean that would help the United States 
usps'ward off a possible Soviet ofl. grab, 
pric&t President-elect Reagan has expressed similar 
olhutviems. 

aw anti The former secretary of state who paved 
the w^forMideastpe^ce shuttle _ 

dapleiim& m Isfa antfi97$, is also sounding ‘ 
. cAit ways begetting die Arabtlsraeli peace 
process bade on trade. Negotiati on s for the 
autonomy of 1 .5 million Palestinians living in 
' ““ occupied Israeli territories are bogged down 
. . over how much autonomy the Palestinians 
should enjoy. Kisanger is to fly to Israel on 
aik r Saturday and from there continue his trip to 
Saudi Arabia, Oman and Morocco before 
returning home to report to Reagan on his 

At the same time, Richard Allen, a princi- 
pal Reagan adviser, described Kissmgefs 
current trip to the Middle East as a com- 
ysoc * Ptaely private one. 

; e past i* There is no official character to his visit 
ttst « whatsoever, nor & he carrying a message 
eM i from the president-elect or anyone else in his 
pjjit administration,” Allen said. Asked about a 
suggestion -by Sol Iinowitz, who is Carter’s 
1 ' special Mid east negotiator, that Kissinger 

succeed him, Allen said “his private com- 
^ ty! meats do not reflect the official position of 
^ the incoming adminis tration in any way." 

** Barre condemns 
^Carter inaction 

So* . MCXjADISHU, Jan. 3 (R) — Somali Pres- 
i p* ident Muhammad Siad Barre, has said the 
lack of prompt action by President Carter had 
i 3 «# created instability in the strategic Horn of 
iicaU* Africa, the Somali News Agency (SONNA) 
hr reported. Speaking to Reuter Friday night 
after talks with former U.S. Secretary of State 
i Henry Kissinger, Barre said he had been 
jcur^sf- discouraged by . statements made by 
President-elect Ronald Reagan and would 
^ welcome the promotion of LLS.-Somah rela- 
tions. 

^ * Barre was referring to the failure of Car- 
tef s government to step in as arms supplier 

* - , after Somalia expelled Soviet advisers in 

1>77. 

Somalia was at the time fighting a war with 
- [t v Ethiopia over the disputed Ogaden region. 

1 . Barre said: “We are convinced that had 
'Carter’s steps been more prompt, a . stable 
d) > atmosphere would have been attained in the 
region.” Following the 1977-78 Ogaden war, 

# Fv there have been frequent border dashes bet-^ 
D' l J ween Ethiopia and Somalia. 

' 3 ; : Somalia denies that its uoqps are in the 
Ogaden, saying only secessionist fighters are 
fightin g - Ethiopian rule of the et hm ca jly - 
^ Somali ^re a. 

^ ‘.The presidentsaid the Ethiopian govern 
ra rtwnt was a colonial regimeand said anyfore- 

ign states aiding it were acting in violation of 
u nman rights and the prindples of self- 

detennination. . _ . 

; Meanwhile, Sudanese Culture and Infor- 
mation Minister Is mail el Haj Musa' has cal- 
led on Somalia to join other East Afri can 
countries in what he called steps to provide 
peace and stability in the region. - 
• I Speaking Friday after celebrations to mark 
indepeodnee day, he said there had been fre- 
J . qnenr .border dashes between Somalia and 
‘Ethiopia- rince- the 1977 r 78 war on the dk- 
^uied Cteaden region. ; . _ , . . 

" 'Relations between Sudan and Ethiopia 
iSmtoyedrecentiy after being ata Iowebb for 
‘several yeare because of the war in Ethiopia* 
Tirdvm'ce;df £ritrea yhich caused refugees to 
cross toe-border into Sudan. 



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UAE calls 
for return 

of islands 

MANAMA. Bahrain Jan. 3 (AP) - A 
United Arab Emirates leader issued Satur- 
day a “get tough” call to the Arabs to help 
regain three Gulf islands seized by Iran since 
1971, tile Gulf News Agency reported. 

Sheikh Khaled Bin Saqr AJ-Qasemi, 
deputy ruler of the UAE and ruler of Ras AI 
Khaimah, was quoted as insisting the Arabs 
must keep pressing their de man d for a return 
of the islands to the UAE sovereignty. His 
statement was published by the UAE news- 
paper AI -Bayou. The three islands — the 
Greater Tunb, the Lesser Tunb and Abu 
Moussa — were occupied by the army of the 
late Shah of Iran nine years ago. 

Asked if the UAE had responded to a 
recent request by an Arab country — 
believed to be Algeria — to postpone its 
demand for regaining the islands because 
conditions were not propitious at present, 
Oasemi said “we wffl not relent." He praised 
Iraq fOT §npporting the "UAE on theissae.of 
the islands against Ran. _ M 

UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs RashedK 
Abdullah recently called for the return of the - 
islands in a memoradum to U.N. Secretary 
General Kurt Waldheim. 

“As long as there is an usurped right, the 
demand for the return of the islands should 
continue at all times and through all means 
untQ they return to the Arab motherland," 

- Oasemi was quoted by the newspaper as say- 
ing. 


Jordan 
explains 
position 
on M.E. 

By Fawzi Asmar and 
Bob Lebling 

Washington Bureau 

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 — In its first for- 
mal contact with the incoming U.S. administ-t 
ration* Jordan has spelled out its conditions 
for joining indie Middle East peace process, 
-including its rejection of the Camp David 
“umbrella" and its refusal to serve as a 
negotiating surrogate for the Palestine Liber- 
ation Organization. 

Jordan’s stand was set forth this week dur- 
ing a meeting between Jordanian officials and 
President-elect Reagan's National Security 
adviser- designate, Richard Allen. Both sides 
had sought the meeting, diplomatic sources 
said. 

Allen spoke Tuesday with Gen. Sharif 
Zaid Ben Shaker, Commander-m-Chief of 
the Jordanian Armed Forces, and with Jor- 
dan’s Ambassador for die semi-annual meet- 
ing of the U.S.- Jordanian joint committee on 
military cooperation. 

Allen's talks with the Jordanians were 
broad in scope, and included discussion of the 
so-called “Jordanian option," or involve- 
ment of Jordan in the next stage of die Middle 
East peace process. 

Reagan's National Security adviser asked a 
number of questions about Jordan's stand 
toward peace negotiations, sources said. 

Allen was told that Jordan's position was 
very dear. 

— Jordan would never agree to be a 
negotiating substitute for the PLO, 

— Jordan insisted on total Israeli with- 
drawal from occupied Arab lands, and 
— Jordan endorsed self-determination for 
the Palestinian people. 

In addition, the Jordanian officials told 
Allen that their country would not enter into 
any peace negotiations under the umbrella of 
Camp David, the sources said. But other 
negotiating formats would be considered, 
Reagan's adviser was told. 

Meanwhile, ‘Arab News has learned that 
Vice President-elect George Bush will under- 
take a mission to the Middle East on Presi- 
dent Reagan's behalf in February or March. 

Bush, a former CIA director and ex- 
ambassador to the U.N.,is expected to carry 
with him invitations to a number of Middle 
Eastern leadmsto visit to Washington and 
meet with the President. 


$5b for poorer states 

Arab fund discussed 



HIT BY FLOOD: A view of Sangiang village In Majal e n g ka district of West Java, hit by 
flood and landslide Friday night leaving more than 110 persons dead, a 100 more iqjnred 
and 50 others missing- 

In Saudi Arabia 

Japan to promote ‘rain’ 


TOKYO, Jan. 3 (AFP) — The Japanese 
famous for fighting their way into difficult 
export markets, now want to bring rain to 
Saudi Arabia. A Japanese company is seek- 
ing backing from Saudi Arabia for the 
scheme which would invlove the use of a 
giant tent,the Japanese Kyodo news service 
has reported. 

The agfcncy said a research team of the 
Osaka-based Taiyo Kogyo, known in Japan 
for its recreational tents and for such giant 
teat-like structures as the 140-raeter-long 
American pavilion at Expo '70 has spent 
one year trying to devise a method of creat- 
ing rain in the parched desert regions of the 
world. 

The plan they came up with involves the 
construction of a tent 10 kins long, 1 2 kms 
.wide and 600 meters high. This would simu- 
late a mountain range, Kyodo said. 

The theory is that when damp sea winds 
hit a mountain range, rain is caused. This is 
because water vapor in the winds is forced 
into the upper sky, where the lower atmos- 
pheric pressure causes clouds to form, lead- 
ing to rain, it explained. 

Bat in the desert downdrafts come from 
the upper-sky, scattering water vapor before 
it can rise high enough to form douds. It is 
tought that a man-made “mountain range" 
will cause updrafts. 

Kyodo quoted the chairman of the 
I research team Ruyotaro Nomura as saying 
•that die research has been checked through 


a computer simulation. But there are no 
places in Japan suitable for experiments, 
which could involve uang a scaled-down 
model tent 

Nomura said: “The coastal area would be 
the best. There would be a lot of moisture in 
the air and the wind must come from the 
sea. Also we think the land should be as flat 
as possible." 

He said that a back structure would cre- 
ate the most uplist, adding that the most ■ 
suitable fabric would be most-coated fibreg- 
lass which would last for 20 years. A stain- 
less steel membrane would last SO years, but 
would be less flexible. 

"It will be expensive, but the benefits will 
surely be 1 0 times the cost — we can create 
9 new civilization,'' Nomura said. 

The company has no way of estimating 
the cost of such a project and furlher prog- 
ress on the scheme is now beyond die firm's 
resources. Financial and technological help 
is needed from other comapnies and prefer- 
ably from some governments. 

Nomura views Saudi Arabia as the ideal 
country for such a scheme. It has laige areas 
of desert, a presang need for water. 

For this reason, Taiyo Kogyo is approach- 
ing the Saudi Arabian authorities about the 
project. As a first step, the company hopes 
to invite climatological engineers from 
Saudi Arabia to Japan to view the research 
and discuss implications, Nomura said. 


KUWAIT, Jan. 3 (AP) — A conference 
of the finance ministers from five Arab 
states opened, here Saturday to consider 
apportioning a $5 billion fund among 
poorer Arab States. 

The countries attending the conference 
are Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, the United 
Arab Emirates and Qatar. The fund was set 
up during last month's Arab summit con- 
ference in Amman with the specific purpose 
to finance development projects in poorer 
developing Arab states. Officials said the 
conference will decide on the share to be 
contributed to the fund by each of the five 
participating states and ttieprojects to 
which money will be allocated. 

During the Amm an summit, the five par- 


ticipants pledged to deposit a total of $5 
billion from their ail-revenue surpluses to 
the Kuwait-based Arab Fund for Social and 
Economic Development. The conference 
will also determine the role to be played by 
this organization in the allocation of money. 

Opening the meeting, Kuwait’s Finance 
Minister Abdul Rahman Ai-Atiqi said this 
was a “historic occasion in view of the lofty 
objectives which the five Arab countries try 
to achieve toward Arab brethren who are 
badly in need of finance." 

“The meeting will try to work out a pat- 
tern of action for this special facility and to 
decide rules upon which financing will be 
based,” he added. 


By Israeli troops 


U.N. confirms butchery 


BEIRUT, Jan. 3 (AP) — The United 
Nations has confirmed that Israeli forces 
blew apart the bodies of five Palestinian 
commandos shortly after they were killed in 
a shootout in southern Lebanon on Christ- 
mas Day. 

A spokesman for the U.N. Interim Force in 
Lebanon said in a statement issued in Beirut 
Friday night a Dutch UNF1L patrol witnes- 
sed die incident as it happened near the 
Shama village in Wadi AI- Ain valley, dose to 
a U.N.- policed zone six miles north of the 
Israeli border. 

“Israeli soldiers searched the bodies, then 
piled them one over the other,” said the 
UNIFIL statement. “After spraying diem 
with an undetermined liquid, an explosive 
charge was placed over this human pile, 
which soon went off and was followed 10 
minutes later by another exploding charge 
The statement said 30 Israeli soldiers took 
part in the operation on Dec 25. It said 
Dutch U.N. troops watched a mid- morning 
shootout betwen the Israelis and the Palesti- 
nians and kept up their observation until the 
midday ideparture of the Israeli patrol from 
the scene. 

-The shootout occurred within the endaye. 
controlled by Israeli-backed rightist Christ- 
ian militiamen of renegade Lebanese Army 
Maj. Saad Haddad. 

Western diplomats in Beirut leaked the 
word about the destruction of the five Pales- 
tinian corpses two days after the shootout. 
One diplomat, who refused to be named, 
quoted a report b y the Dutch contingent 
commander of UNIFIL as saying the five 
bodies were “herded into a pitle and then 
explosions occurred and the pile disap- 
peared” 

UNIFIL’ s Friday statement was the first 
outright confirmation of the event on an 
ey ewitne ss account The statement said 
UNIFIL requested the International Red 
Cross to investigate the incident and then 
arrange for the removal of the bodies. 

But a Red Cross mission did not material- 

Lebanese army 
moves into 
southern suburb 

BEIRUT, Jan. 3 (AFP) — The Lebanese 
army Saturday began moving back into a 
southern Beirut suburb which it had aban- 
doned last November after clashes between 
rival Christian factions, official sources said. 
By early morning, regular troops had taken 
up position at four strategic points in the 
.suburb covering Ain Rummaneb and Fum 
El Chebbak, while motorised units patrol- 
led the narrow streets. 

The army pulled out of the suburb after it 
intervened in dashes between Phalangist 
troops and supporters of Camille Cha- 
in oun’s National Liberal Party in late 
October. The troops had first moved into 
the area last summer after a first round of 
dashes between the two forces. 

Soon after die army quit the region in 
November, Prime Minister Shafic Wazzan 
called for an enquiry to apportion blame 
and sanction the officers concerned. The 
results of the enquiry were never revealed, 
but press reports suggested the government 
planned to retire Gen. Victor Khouri after 
the inddent. 

Yamani opens 
meetings on 
resources today 

JEDDAH, Jan. 3 (SPA) — .Mineral 
resources ministers from 12 Arab countries 
came to meet here Sunday to draw up a prog- 
ram for the Arab Organization for Mineral 
Resources for the new year. They also will 
discuss a preliminary study on a geological 
and mineral map of the Arab world. 

Sheikh Ahmad Zaki Yamani, minister of 
petroleum and mineral resources, will chair 
the meeting which also will make prepara- 
tions for the fourth Arab general conference 
on mineral resources due to be held in 
Amman. The conference will chan a joint 
Arab strategy to exploit mineral resources. 

The organization was authorized last year 
to prepare a budget and a program for mining 
minerals in the Arab world, with the coopera- 
tion of European companies. 


ize . So on Dec. 29, the statement said, 
UNIFIL dispatched a team to Wadi al- Ain to 
“carry out a medical check and bury the 
bodies, or what remained of them.” 

The statement said some 35 Israeli troops 
prevented the UNIFIL team from reaching 
the area by firing warning shots in the air. The 
Israelis, the statement said, then placed the 
remains of the five bodies in plastic bags, 
boarded trucks and left in a southerly direc- 
tion. 

Palestine Liberation Organization called 
the destruction of the five Palestinian corpses 
a “monstrous crime ... that can be committed 
only by Fascist, racist terrorists.” 

A PLO statement urged the International 
Red Cross to “spare no effort to recover the 
remains of the burned corpses for proper bur- 
iaP and said “Zionist terrorism is bound to 
disappear from the face of earth." 

An earlier PLO communique called the 
five dead Palestinians Martyrs of the Revolu- 
tion," identifying them as Abdul a- Karim 
Gafar, Muhammad Kawash, Rustrnn Abdul- 
lah Rustum, Isaac Khalifa and Issam Ataya. 

Arab conference 
to focus on rift ~ 

AMMAN, Jan. 3 — A Jordanian news- 
paper said Saturday a conference of Arab 
leaders was expected to be held in Saudi 
Arabia shortly in an attempt to end inter- 
Arab differences. In an unsourced report, the 
Arabic^ language daily Al -Ba *i said Arab 
good ofBoes committee would prepare for the 
conference, which was expected to be held in 
the second half of this month. 

The committee comprises the Arab 
League Secretary- General Chedli Klibi and 
the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and 
Algeria. The newspaper said the conference 
would precede the Islamic summit to be held 
in Taif, later this month. 


loans 

SRL3b 

RIAYDH. Jan. 3 (SPA) — Loans dis- 
bursed in fiscal 1980 by the Saudi Industrial 
DevelopmentFund reached SR J 3 billion for 
|125 porjects, the fund's annual report said 
Saturday. This brings the total to loans since 
the fund's establishment six years ago to 
SR6.45 billion for 577 projects, the report 
added. 

The fund also financed electricity generat- 
ing companies whose output is subsidized by 
the government to maintain low costs. 

Applications received were 1,171 in addi- 
tion to 86 for electricity plants. About one 
third of those was rejected withdrawn by the 
applicants, the report said. The fund has so 
far spent SR4.71 billion of which SRI .29 bil- 
lion was invested during the past year. It is 
committed to spend another SR5.560 billion. 
Loan repayment by borrowers reached 
SR540 minion of which SR260 million was 
paid back during the past year alone. 

The fund also spent SR7.5 milli on out of a 
committed amount of SR49 miDion to 
finance cold storage facilities, malting it the 
principal source of funds for power genera- 
tion and cold stores, the report said. 

But the largest single allocation went for 
the building materials industry . which 
accounted for 212 loan agreements at a cost 
of SR220 billion. The cement production 
sector alone accounted for SR 1.62 billion. 
Foodstuffs and consumer goods .industries 
covered 132 projects at a cost of SRI. 14 bil- 
lion, chemicals and plastics accounted for 95 
projects at a cost of SRI. 05 billion. 

The main areas of industrial activity 
covered by the fund were Riyadh, Jeddah and 
Dammam, with Riyadh taking 205 projects 
at the cost of SRI .800 billion; Jeddah, 
SRI .706 billion; and Dammam, SRI. 70 bil- 
lion. * 

Other areas being developed included 
Qasim 25 projects at SR360 million; Asir, 1 6 
projects at SR88 million; Jizan nine projects 
at SR435 million; Medina and Yanbu, 11 
projects at a cost of SR444 million. 

The SIDF provides medium to long term 
loan for up to 15 years at two per cent 
administration fee, for up to 50 per cent of 
the projeef s cost Loans are made available 
to qualified industrial manufacturing and 
electricity projects as long as there is at least 
25 per cent local equity participation. 

The fond was founded in 1 974 with initial 
capital of SR500 million for industrial and 
manufacturing projects and SR] 9 million for 
electricity generation companies. 


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Prince Fahd announces 


Villages plan studied 


RIYADH. Jan. 3 (SPA) — Crown Prince 
Fahd said the government is preparing plans 
to provide all villages of the country with 
services now available in towns. - 

“We are quite serious about wanting to 
achieve this objective.*' he said in an inter- 
view with Al Nadwa Saturday. “This will 
enable the citizens in the village to settle 
down and work as farmers or artisans and 
thus contribute to national production 
wherever they may be instead of having large 
concentrations of people in the towns.” Since 
the people like to work and live where they 
were bom and brought up, this would enable 
them to achieve these goals, he said. 

The Kingdom has great potential for 
agricultural output and it is the intention of 
thegovenment to provide all the facilities and 
incentives for the farmers to till the land and 
produce more until we are able to dispense 
with imported foodstuffs. Prince Fahd, said, 
at the same time the government is engaged 
in building roads leading to the farming lands 
to make it easier and cheaper for the farmers 
to transport their produce to the markets. It is 
also organizing modern methods of irrigation 
to ensure a steady supply of water. 

Together with these services the govern- 
ment is building schools, hospitals and power 
stations so farmers may find everything they 

Phone plan calls 
for line expansion 

RIYADH, Jan. 3 (SPA) — More than 

450.000 new telephone lines will be installed 
under the Third Development Plan said Dr. 
Alawi Danish Kayyai, minister of posts, 
telephones and telegraph. Another 150,000 
lines will be added by the end of the plan, he 
confirmed. 

Riyadh's share of the new lines will be 

70.000 to bring to a quarter of a million the 
total number of telephone lines in the capital. 
Jeddah and Dammam will get approximately 
the same rqtio, the minister said. Moreover, 
some 300 Saudi villages will be connected to 
the telephone network by 1985. Aerial net- 
works in new district in cities also will be 
replaced by underground cables to provide 
more stability for telephone lines. 

Dr. Kayyai said the microwave project is 
already covering a 10,000 kilometer distance 
with 35,000 sound channels and two televi- 
sion channels. It is particularly useful in con- 
tacts with neighboring countries like Kuwait 
and Bahrain. Qatar, the United Arab Emi- 
rates, Jordan and Syria are about to be 
hooked to the microwave system. A fourth 
satellite station is also planned in Saudi 
Arabia to bring to 3,000 the total number of 
long distance call channels, enabling 3,000 
persons to call the outside world simultane- 
ously. 


want at home, settle down, and till the'lancL 
“ We are the only country in the world that is 
spending large amounts of money for incen- 
tives to agriculture, industry and construc- 
tion." he said. 

During the recent visit of King Khaled to 
Qasira and Hail regions, the Crown Prince 
discussed with officials the possibility of 
building cold stores to help farmers stock 
their produce and perishable commodities so 
that they may then sell them at reasonable 
rates, be said. 

Prince Fahd reiterated the Kingdom's 
adherence to the Islamic Sharia and said the 
Islamic people will never triumph without it. 
“Islamic solidarity,” he said, “has been our 
clear and unwavering line of conduct since it 
was adopted by King Faisal.” It is not our 
intention to lead the the rest of the Islamic 
world, but to promote its unity, he added. 

He attributed- the decline of the Islamic 
people to their adoption of materialistic 
ideologies which they wrongly thought would 
be better for them. “They made a mistake,” 
he said, “because the Sharia was a com- 
prehensive system that dearly points out 
right and wrong.” 

Prince Fahd said he is proud of the King- 
dom’s aherence to the religion with which 
God has honored it and will continue to 
adhere strictly to it. 

Prince Fahd said the government is main- 
taining its program to build a modem and 
strong army which will be its bulwark against 
aggression. He called on the people to join 
the armed forces and contribute to the 
defense of their religion and homeland. 

He said, Saudi Arabia is unique in its state 
of security and stability. ‘'This was testified 
by United Nations reports about internal 
security.” he said. “Tliis happy state is due to 
the application of the Sharia and the govern- 
ment's concern about the safety and security 
of the dozens.” 

Traffic officials 
plan car auction 

By a staff writer 

JEDDAH, Jan. 3 — Jeddah Traffic 
Department announced that it will get rid of 
more than 1,000 cars impounded in a public 
auction unless the owners come to daim their 
cars by Jan. 6 . 

In a statement by the department, Ll Col. 
Assad Abdul Karim, director of Jeddah 
Traffic, said the department will go ahead 
with its decision Jan. 7. He said that these 
vehides are in good shape and that the 
department will undertake all the neoessary 
procedures for the transfer of ownership to 
the purchasers. The move will encourage, 
buyers. 



FOLK DANCE: Second Deputy Premier and Commander of the National Guard Prince 
Abdullah — flanked by Defense and Aviation Minister Prince Sultan, Riyadh Governor 
Prince Salman and other princes — perform a tribal dance at the celebrations given for 
King Khaled and his party in Hai l earlier in the week. 

To discuss joint programs 

Gulf health ministers meet 


MANAMA, Jam 3 (SPA) — The 10th con- 
ference of Gulf Ministers of Health opened 
here Saturday attended by Saudi Arabia, 
Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar. Kuwait, the UAE and 
Oman. 

The three-day conference will discuss Gulf 
joint programs production in health educa- 
tion. fighting malaria, smoking, nutrition 
control and inspection of mineral waters. The 
conference's agenda includes discussion of a 
proposed regional college or higher studies 
institute on the branches of general health 
and other issues. 

Bahraini Health Minister Dr. Ali 
Muhammad Fakhru addressed the opening 
session by calling for immediate and com- 
prehensive moves to achieve the designed 
targets in political, economic, security, social, 
cultural and technology fields. Dr. Fakhru 
said his country believes that cooperation in 
all fields among Arab states is vital for prog- 
ress of the Arab world. He expressed his hope 
that the conference would undertake wise 
decisions that fulfil] the requirement of the 
historic period the region is passing through. 

Iraqi Health Minister Dr. Riad Ibrahim 
Hussain spoke on the achievements of the 
previous conferences regarding further 
cooperation between Gulf states in the field 
of preventive medicine and rehabilitation. 

Dr. Hussain also said the last conference 
prepared reports on fi g htin g malaria, cancer 
treatment, environment protection, health 
care, rehabilitation of the handicapped and 
equipping hospitals. He said he hoped that 
the conference would implement these 
reports to realize their objectives. 

Health Minister Dr. Hussein Jazaeri. 


TECHNICS INTRODUCES THE FIRST TIRlIflABIE 
YOU CAN HIDE UNDER A RECORD JACKET. I 






When the Japan's largest 
electronics group decided to 
build the world's smallest DD 
linear-tracking turntable they 
choose 315mm square as their 
goal. Or in more recognizable 
terms, the same dimensions 
as a record jacket's. 

To squeeze everything in 
and make the whole package fully automatic, 
they first developed a sophisticated micro- 
computer control system installed the tonearm 
in the lid. At the same time, they added some 
novel features, like a record clamp so 
you can hang your music on a wall. 

The result looks different, 
of course. More like a piece 


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of computer hardware than a precision audio 
component. The Technics sound is the same, 
though. Some even think it’s better. 

Its name Is the SL-10. And whole you might 
lose it under your albums, you'll find your 
albums sounding better than ever. 




315mm 


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arrived here Friday to lead the Kingdom's 
delegation to the Arab Gulf health ministers 
conference*.' He said, the minis ters will 
exchange views on their respective experi- 
ences and try to find common solutions to 
their problems. They also will study a number 
of joint projects and the standardization of 
health systems. 

. Later, the participants in the conference 
were received by Sheikh Issa ibn Salman 
■Al- Khalifa, the ruler of Bahrain. The audi- 
ence was attended by Sheikh Khalifa ibn 
Salman A 1- Khalifa, Bahraini premier; 
Sheikh Muhammad ibn Mubarak Al-Khalifa, 
die foreign minister; and other senior offi- 
cials. 


Briefs 


Murderer beheaded 

ABHA, Jan. 3 (SPA) — A convicted mur- 
derer, Ali ibn Hassan ibn Halia. - was 
beheaded here Friday after the noon prayers 
at Bihar square. An Interior Minist ry com- 
munique said that the penalty was carried out 
after Halia confessed before the Sharia 
Court to having killed Nasser ibn Mishi 
Amtoum. 

Governor thanks King 
HAIL, Jan. 3 (SPA) — Hail Governor ■ 
Prince Muqren cabled his thanlcs Friday to 
King Khaled and Crown Prince Fahd, on 
behalf of the people of Hail, for their visit to 
the area. The King and his party returned to 
Riyadh Thursday from a one week tour of 
Qasim and Hail regions. 

Moroccan minister arrives 

RIYADH, Jan. 3 (SPA). — Moroccan 
Interior Minister Idris AJ-Basri arrived here 
from Jeddah Saturday. He was met at the 
airport by Prince Ahmad, the deputy minister 
of interior, and other officials of the ministry. 
Basri arrived in Jeddah Friday on a few-days 
visit to the Kingdom. 

Flights closer to schedule 

JEDDAH, Jan. 3 — Saudia flights depart- 
ing within 15 minutes of schedule readied 
80.8 per cent during the month of November 
according to a report released by the airline. 
The figure exceeds Saudia' s target for 1980 , 
by 0.8 per cent. The figure is just 03 per cent 
less than that of the same period last year, 
despite the 51 per cent increase of flight since 
then. 

Nazer arrives In U.S. 

WASHINGTON. Jan. 3 (SPA) — Plan- 
ning Minister Sheikh Hishaxn Nazer arrived 
here Saturday on a 19-day visit to die United ' 
States. Sheikh Nazer will give two lectures 
on the Kingdom’s economy and third five- 
year development plan in Houston and San 
Francisco. The minister also will meet 
businessmen. 

Lecture to be given 

DAMMAM, Jan.3 (SPA) — Muhammad 
Hussein Zaidan, editor ofA/ -Dana magazine 
and a prominent commentator, win give a 
lecture under the title of “the Arab Island" 
Sunday. The lecture will be held at King 
Faisal University's Faculty of Medicine and 
Medical Sciences. The lecture is part of 
KELTs cultural season activities. 

Hostel to open 

DAMMAM, Jan. 3 (SPA) — Eastern Pro- 
vince Governor Prince Abdul Mohsen ibn 
JQuwi wil] dedicate the youth hostel of Dam- 
mam Sunday. The hostel accommodates 200 
inmates and has sports facilities, administra- 
tion budding, a movie theater, a stage and a 
restaurant. This is third youth hostel to open 
in one month under die youth welfare plan to 
build youth hostels across the Kingdom. The 
o flier two were opened in Jeddah and 
Riyadh. 


Prayer Times 


Sunday 

Mecca 

Medina 

Nqjd 

Fajr 

' 535 

5j41 

5.13 

Ishraq 

7.00 

7.06 

638 

Dbuhr 

12J16 

1237 

11.58 

Assr 

331 

337 

238 

Maghreb 

533 

5.48 

5.19 

Isha 

733 

7.18 

6.49 


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SUNDAY, JANUARyj 


By Aziz Shihab 

Houston Bureau 

HOUSTON; Jan. 3 — Jack Crichton, a 
Texas oilman with extensive business inter- 
ests in the Arab^orld, is the leading candi- 
date for tire post of Ambassador to Saudi 
Arabia in President-elect Ronald Reagan's 
government. 

During an interview in his office in Dallas, 
Texas, Crichton said be had been notified by 
Reagan's transition team that he was recom- 
mended for the diplomatic post. ”1 think I 
could be of service to both the United Stttes 
and Saudi Arabia,” Crichton said. “Espe- 
cially since I know many of the Saudi Arabian 
leaders and l know the attitudes of the people 
and their desires for their country and their 
people. 

“Since the United States is dependent to a 
large degree on Saudi Arabia to serve its 
fluctuating energy needs,” he continued, 
“outs is a relationship that has to be carefully 
nurtured. And Saudi Arabia has investments 
in the United States and their welfare is tied 
up into the welfare, of the United States,” he 
added. 

Crichton is chairman of the board of Ara- 
bian Sheiield Development Company with 
headquarters in Dallas and offices in Jeddah. 
He has visited Saudi Arabia twice a year for 
the last 15 years, and also has visited Jordan, 
United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Syria and 
Egypt In addition to Arabian Shield, Crich- 
ton is president of Crichton and Co., a pet- 
roleum consulting and management firm; 



Jack Crichton 

director of Transco, Inc., a gas 
and oil and gas exploration and pn. 
company; and director of Whitehall' 
small conglomerate, inducting a ge ’ 
company. 

Crichton, 64, received a Bachelor of 
ence degree from Texas A & M Univera 
1 937. a Master of Science degree from 
sachu setts Institute of Technology in 
and a professional degree in petrolsj 
engineering from Texas A & M Uruversfrifl 
1952. In 1964, Crichton was^ a Repul 
candidate for governor of Texas. He has 
active in politics as a Republican for |__ 
years, induding hosting and acting as'cfid 
man for a Reagan Committee event in 195 ; 


Lebanon recovery boosted 
by Kingdom’s assistance 


By Hussein Dakroab 

JEDDAH, Jan. 3 — Saudi Arabia' s role in 
helping with delicate and difficult dreums- 
tances during die conflict in Lebanon has won 
praise from all factions, according to Saudi 
Business magazine Saturday. 

Lebanese Ambassador to the Kingdom Dr. 
Zafer Al Hassan said that all Lebanese sects 
commend Saudi Arabia’s persistent and 
unwavering support for their country at the 
political, economic and financial levels. * 

“Saudi Arabian- Lebanese relations are 
dose and solid. To speak only of the 
economic and commercial aspects, it can be 
safely said that relations are excellent and, in 
spite of the Lebanese events in thepasryears, 
they are proceeding normally,” the ambas- 
sador said. Al Hassan disdosed that the 


economy and individual initiative. 
that the troubles which jolt the region 1 
time and then, like those which have 
plaguing Lebanon for the past five j 
bave failed to affect the economic ancf< 
.merdal exchange between the two couni 
is dear-cut proof of the success of it 
cooperation. And the future cannot bat 
bright one,” Al Hassan stressed. 

Al Hassan. who has a Ph.D. in Intenrf 
*ponaI Law, has been in Saudi Arabia ' 
years. Before his appointment in the ' 

dom, Al Hassan had served as 

cT affaires at the Lebanese ernbassta in&& v> ~ 

don. Paris andBrussels. He was also thodlf * 
.of the Arab Affairs Department ifr-r* 1 ' 7 *'" 
Lebanese Foreign Minis try . 



iSjv Zafer Al Hassan 

Kingdom imports the equivalent of SR1.5 
billion worth OR 48.5 per cent of Lebanon’s 
industrial exjxjrK and 55 per cent of Leba- 
non's entire experts annually. 

The Ambassador said there is no aid prog- 
ram or agreement.be tween Lebanon and the 
Kingdom. ^However, the Kingdom, along 
with other Arab states, is committed to 
extending financial assistance to Lebanon in 
accordance with the resolutions of the Arab 
summit conference in Baghdad, Tunis and 
A mm a n . In addition to this, Saudi Arabia 
gives financial aid to Lebanese social or 
teaching institutions as well as sample aids to 
refugees and semi-official institutions (like 
municipalities). Needless to say, both the 
Lebanese government and people are very 
grateful to fbe government and people of 
Saudi Arabia for standing on their side,” Al' 
Hassan emphasized. 

Despite the fact that the specter of turmoil 
and instability is still han g in g oVer the Middle 
East, the ambassador sees ecorrbmic cooper- 
ation between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia 
flourishing in the future. “I look at economic 
cooperation between the two countries from 
an optimistic perspective. The twA countries 
belong to an integrated eoonomieflegion and 
.are, committed to the principle kfc a free 


COMMENT 

By Mutlaq Mukhaflad Al-DMyabi 
Al Medina 

The issue of high bridal fees 

assumed the proportions of a grave soqa£, 
phenomenon; Those who demand fanfaff;] 
tic sums have preferred to turn a deafjri£' 
to what is being said on the subjectrtatf 
care little about its consequences onjSb 
happiness of their daughters and the Saf- 
ety as a whole. . << 

If not all, at least some of them knotf; 
well what the Prophet Muhammad has 
advised on this matter, and how he*has 
forbidden to make daughters as com- 
mi dities to be sold at fabulous prices. Bat 
even those who know fall prey to worldly 
avarice and pay no heed to the dreams- 
tances of young men desirous of finding* 
life-partner. 

Many marriage opportunities presented 
to young daughters are lost only because 
of the greed which permanently afflicts 
their guardians. Years roQ by, and 
them wither the blossom of their yqd .. 
With the passage of time, it becomes-lfil; 
ficult to find a fiance. It is a mattertha£ 
brings in its fold many a moral probl^St 
and sometimes ends up in a situation^ljic 
greedy guardians can hardly imaging 
.When they come face to face with 38$ 
painful fact, they realize that they hip? 
been the direct cause of the misforaxq&. 
Conscientious people ought to avfotjj 
such situations. Those who marry 
daughters just to find a suitable opportwM 
ity to get rich overnight do not have^ira 
xegard for the wishes . ot their dai@h j 

ters. They seldom care for their sgi&j] 
ments and preferences, since they drpwajj 
themselves in the obtain men t of 
sums. Such guardians, in fact, attach 
value to this creature who came in 
tenoe through them, but whom theytaTf^i 
sefl like any commodity. sold on ear&sM 1 
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7rt for Arab rights urged 


EC Council chief 
»lds Kuwait talks 


: - ilT. Jan. 3 ( Agencies} — The PreSi-' 
le European Community's Cuuncfl 
crs. Dutch Foreign Minister Christ- 
der Klaauw conferred Saturday with 
'a ruler Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad 
£ Vv t and the Crown Prince and Premier 
£ sad Al- Abdullah Al-Sabah. 

3* 5 heldoffidal talks with the Kuwaiti 
• Minister Sheikh Sabah Ai-Ahmad 
*S>. i. Van der Klaauw is on a mission to 
t European quest for a Middle East 

¥ ex Klaauw told reporters his talks 
* ikh Sabah f focused on » the Middle 
& . blem and "future of my mission as 
^ I t of the EEC Minuzeiiai Cnundl." 1 
ftussions also covered die present 
a ’in the region particularly the Iraq : 
L. **■#*, and bilateral relations.” he said. 
0 f r ^ded that talks also dealt with '<cur- 
.] T^homic circumstances in developing 
dlt »8i t» and efforts being taken ro combat 

a *$tpeU inflation 
record 135% 

\ xu. h AVIV. Jan. 3 (Rl — Israers infla- 
n tv* 7 *? f° r .1980 readied a record 135 
{-j according io an estimate issued 
Central Bureau- of Statistics. The 
•^tfriday said the value of the Israeli 
»iit ** shelceI ‘ f e H by 1 14 per cent 
" ft 5i,the dollar over the year, 
koi.hal figure for Israeli inflation win be 
'u Inbcd on Jan. .1 5 when die price index 
rc. is released. 

Internationa! Monetary Fund said 
ICO ee ^ diat ^ srae ^ s inflation. rate was 
grid’s highest, ahead of Thrkey and 
itina. 

inin«n. 7 * : 

;^fts- said beh 

ne p»c ... 

"SLibya-Syris 

“J^VArr. Jan; 3 (AP) - Differences 
n Syrian President Hafez Assad and 
1 .leader Muammar Gaddafi have 
‘“di Ankl-in the suspension of talks to finalize 
disposed merger between the two states. 

^newspaper reported Saturday. 

’ independent daily Al -Watan quoted 
* ifprmed Arab sources as saying the dxf- 
‘'-'Fanntf arose during Assad's visit to Libya in 
jy- cceraber when Qaddafi proposed that 
dissolve the Baath Party, the ruling 
I ^ CC&USe L * b ^ ,a does HOtWieve 

™**ia and Libya announced they 


world inflation." 

"The talks underlined the importance of 
developing a world economic order better 
than the present one.” he added. 

The Dutch diplomat praised his country's 
relations with Kuwait, saying there is cooper- 
ation between the two countries on the inter- 
national level concerning several subjects. 

Government sources said Kuwait Saturday 
renewed its call on the EEC countries to 
shoulder their responsibility toward the Mid- 
dle East crisis through supporting the 
national Palestinian rights inducting the set- 
ting up of an independent slate on the 
occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. 

Talking ro newsmen on arrival Van der 
Klaauw said he was continuing the efforts of 
his predecessor as council president, Luxem- 
bourg's Gaston Thom, who visited Middle 
East states last year. 

The Dutch minister said he had studied the 
report submitted by Thorn and had 
embarked on his own tour of the region “fora 
fresh reappraisal and to define our stand.” 
He did not elaborate. He said be would be 
visiting other Middle East states in February 
and March. 

In The Hague, a Netherlands foreign minis- 
try spoeksman said, however, that Van der 
Klaauw' s visit was not a resumption of an 
EEC mission to promote peace moves m the 
region. The minister's talks with government 
leaders in Kuwait and Qatar would mainly 
cover bilateral issues although international 
questions were also likely to be raised, the 
spokesman said. 

The EEC launched a Middle East initiative 
last June after European leaders expressed 
the view that the U.S.-inspected Camp David 
process appeared to have made little progress 
in reaching an overall Arab- Israeli settle- 
ment. 


jfts said behind suspension 
£Libya-Syria merger talks 


would merge their two countries on Sept. 10. 
Assad flew to UbyB in December to discuss 
the final points of the union. 

"Syria will not dissolve the Arab Socialist 
Party and will not repeat the mistake it com- 
mitted in 1958 when union was established 
between Syria and Egypt,” the sources 
quoted Assad as saying. Syria dissolved all 
political parties during the merger with 
Egypt. 

Official Syrian sources denied the talks had 
been suspended but observers in Damascus 
have said differences existed over issues such 
as political parties. 


Mates Middle East 

Israelis 

postpone "3Si| 
seizure of 
Arab firm 

TEL AVIV, Jan. 3 ( WP) - Israers sup- / 
reme court has temporarily prevented the/ »V " 

government from taking over thor 
Palestinian- owned East Jerusalem Electro 
Co. until it issues a final ruling on the planma 
seizure. / Jk . . 

Without remarking on the merits of/he . 6k " 

case, which has become the focus of a lyAjor 
controversy in Israel, the three-judge ianel 
issued a temporary injunction againfc the 
Israeli Energy Ministry from implementing MEETS SADA 

its plan to take control of the nimpany meeting with E 

Thursday. The court did not indicay when it that European i 

will make a ruling. f hindering the l 

Anwar Nusseibeh, chairmaiy of East 
Jerusalem Electric, the largest Arab-owned 1/1^ - , . . 
business enterprise remaining h the West V lj 

Bank, interpreted the courts pofoonment as m 

a good omen. / 

“I have been trained in the /gal tradition, a 
and I have tremendous faith/i the essential ■* £kV 
decency of the system,” /id Nusseibeh, 
former Jordanian defense /mister. 

Many of the company'/ 400 Palestinian CAIRO, Jan. 3 ( 

employees gathered in ttf rain outside the s f?^ or envoys to l 
court compound, for /be decision also m a “iploir 

appeared encouraged bythe continuation of A™ 5 , attacks on 1 
the proceedings. Som^of them had warned Israel, 

that a takeover by yrael could result in Boutros Ghah, n 

sabotage of equipment and business records. affairs and a key 
The government Attorney, Yorara Bar- Israel, left for Ar, 
Sela, claimed that he planned seizure was Mexico while 5a mi 
not a political deci/on but was based purely under-secretary, fc 
bn economic grou/fs because of the alleged Amcan states, 
inefficiency of Ui Jerusalem Electric's . The “™^ r e T d . 
diesel generanniysrem. ““ <* U “ 

Attorneys iofhe firm, which distributes m 

power to afcoutftOO.OOO Palestinians of East OU .DUl] 

Jerusalem andfthe West Bank, as well as to 
15,000 Jewsffi new neighborhoods in the ISLAMABAD,! 
outskirts of Me capital and in West Bank members of the b 

settlement, /aid the real purpose of the Party, founded by 

takeover /as to eliminate Palestinian Zulfikar AHBhottc 

economic independence and disrupt Karachi by militi 

financial /nits between the West Bank and informed sources s 

Iordan, piidh supports the company. Police officials ct 

Cai/o court begins trial of 50 Com 

CAKO. Jan. 3 (R) — The trial of about 50 are charged with b 

persoi arrested 18 months ago during one of Communist Work 

Egyp/s periodic anti-Communist crack- stitution bans Com 

dowi began here Saturday in the State See- accused were detail 

uri/ Court, opposition politicians reported. of them were relca 

f later. Mohieddin s 

/Khaled Mohieddin, leader of th e’l eft- wing trial l ° las J about 

AJnionist Progressive Party (UPP), said five appeal against seal 
f UPP members were among the accused, who can on Iy ° e °ver-r 


(AF photo) 

MEETS SADAT: Former British Prime Mxnister Edward Heath (right) during his 
meeting with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat Tuesday. Heath told Egyptian o ffici a ls 
that European Common Market countries plan new contacts aimed at solving problems 
hindering die U-S. -sponsored Middle East peace process. 

Egyptian envoys sent 
to explain M.E. policy 


CAIRO, Jan. 3 (R) — Egypt has sent two 
senior envoys to Latin America and West 
Africa in a diplomatic campaign to answer 
Arab attacks on Cairo's peace agreement 
with Israel. 

Boutros Ghali, minister of state for foreign 
affairs and a key Egyptian negotiator with 
Israel, left for Argentina, Peru. Chile and 
Mexico while Samir Ahmed, foreign ministry 
under-secretary, began a tour of the west 
African states. 

The nonaligned movement and Organiza- 
tion of African Unity (OAU) movements are 


both scheduled to hold foreign ministers' 
conferences next month. The last nonaligned 
and OAU summits rejected Arab-backed 
resolutions to expel Egypt because of its 
peace treaty with Israel. 

Officials said the primary objective of the 
two tours was to explain Egypt* s Middle East 
policy. 

Ahmed is to visit Gambia, Ivory Coast, 
Senegal. Togo, Guinea, Ghana, Niger, Upper 
Volta. Nigeria, Cameroun. Gabon and Sierra 
Leone. 


60 Bhutto’s supporters arrested 


ISLAMABAD, Jan. 3 ( AP) — About sixty 
members of the banned Pakistan People's 
Party, founded by the late Prime Minister 
Zulfikar All Bhouo. have been arrested in 
Karachi by military intelligence agents, 
informed sources said Saturday. 

Police officials confirmed the arrests were 

of 50 Communists 

are charged with belonging to the Egyptian 
Communist Workers' Party. Egypt’s con- 
stitution bans Communist organizations. The 
accused were detained in August, 1 979. Most 
of them were released on bail several weeks 
later. Mohieddin said lawyers expected the 
trial to last about two months. There is no 
appeal against security court verdicts, which 
can only be over-ruled by President Sadat. 


made Friday, but declined further comment. 
Among those detained were seven journalists 
including Wahab Siddiqi and Wahid Bashccr, 
editor and assistant editor, respectively, of 
the pro-PPP Al Fatah magazine, they said. 

Irshad Rao, the weekly's publisher, also 
was arrested for alleged subversive activities. 

Informants said the sweep was connected 
with plans to hold rallies marking the Jan. 5 
birthday of Bhutto, who was deposed by the 
military in 1977 and hanged two years later 
following conviction on murder-conspiracy 
charges. Political activities have been banned 
by martial law since October 1979. 

The sources, in touch with local officials, 
said the arrests were carried out by the Pakis- 
tan army’s field intelligence unit, which had 
the PPP workers detained at various police 
stations in the port city. 


PAGE 3 

Israeli 

clergy 

scandal 

exposed 

TEL AVIV, Jan. 3 (AP) — The latest 
chapter in the bribery scandal engulfing the 
Israeli dergy was played over the radio in a 
live broadcast of angry recriminations bet- 
ween the interior mini ter and the ousted chief 
of police. 

Israelis settling down for the Friday even- 
ing were treated to a broadcast news confer- 
ence with the ex-chief of police over his dis- 
missal at the height of a bribery probe. 

Then the radio handed the microphone to 
the man who fired the top cop. Interior Minis- 
ter Yosef Burg. Burg say’s he sacked 
Inspector-General Erzl Spafir for planting a 
false story in the press to help his investiga- 
tion of Religion Minister Agaron Abu- 
Hatzeira, who is suspected of taking bribes. 

Shafir managed, without saying so out- 
right. to insinuate that he had been sacked 
because his inquiries were taking him too 
high into the political establishment. 

Abu-Hatzeira is alleged to have taken 
some $15,000 worth of bribes in return for 
channeling state funds to religious institu- 
tions. Parliamentary committee is to decide 
whether to strip Abu-Hatzeira of immunity 
so that he can be prosecuted. 

The 51-year-old Shafir, a tough-talking 
military man became chief of police a year 
ago. 

And to the delight of a public that had long 
demanded a probe into the funding of the 
powerful dergy. Shaft set in motion the 
Abu-Hatzeira investigation. Israelis were 
interested enough to overlook his unor- 
thodox methods — phoney inquires, police- 
sanctioned burglaries in search of evidence, 
tiie employment of an old army comiadefora 
top police job even though the man was 
known to have friends in the underworld. 

At his news conference. Shafir claimed 
Burg gave him no help. 

The first question to Shafir was whether he 
had been fired to prevent the Abu-Hatzeira 
probe spilling into the interior ministry's 
money. 

“No comment." said Shafir. 

The police chief also complained that he 
was constantly under pressure to make life 
more comfortable for religious figures jailed 
as pan of the Abu-Hatzeira investigation. He 
daimed that Burg's own spokesman had long 
ago warned him that the interior ministry was 
“corrupt.” 

The charge that Burg fired Shafir to protect 
Abu-Hatzeira since both belong to the same 
political faction has been leveled by the daily 
Haaretz. 






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Third force’ chief 


returns from China 


BANGKOK. Jan. 3 (Agencies) — Kam- 
puchea's "third force” guerrilla leader, 
former premier Son Sonn, has returned to 
Kampuchea after a visit to China, the Bang - 
kok Post reported Saturday. 


The paper quoted a Thai military source as 
saying Son Sann had gone back Friday 
through Thailand. The report could not be 
independently confirmed. Sann. who has 
been based in Paris for more than six months, 
heads the Khmer People's National Libera- 
tion Front! KPNLF). whidi opposes both the 
ousted pro-Peking Khmer Rouge regime and 
its Vietnam-installed successor government 
under Heng Samrin. 

There has been no official confirmation of 
a Son Sann v isit to Peking, which is seeking to 


promote the Khmer Rouge against the 12- 
year-old Vietnamese occupation of Kam- 
puchea. 

But unconfirmed reports from Peking last 
week said Son Sann had arrived around Dec. 
25 for what was believed to be his second visit 
to China in 1980. China has been trying to 
persuade Prince Sihanouk, the former head 
of stare, who shares his time between Peking 
and Pyongyang, to lead an anti Vietnamese 
united front, but Lhe Prince has repeatedly 
refused in the past year to have anything to do 
with the regime of ex-premier Pol Pot. 
accused of the worst atrocities since Hider. 

As a result, efforts to build a united front 
have focused increasingly on Son Sann in the 
past months of military and diplomatic dead- 
lock. 


U.S. must resist Soviet 


hegemonism, says China 


PEKING. Jan. 3 (AFP) — The United 
States must step up its resistance to Soviet 
‘hegemonism" in 19SI, an official Chinese 
commentator has said. Zheng Senyu. director 
of a magazine end tied A’/iow/edge, of the world 
■nude the comment in an article published by the 
Communists Party. paper The People y Daily 
Friday. In another article also carried by the 
People ’s Daily, senior Chinese diplomat 
Wang Bingnan said the world would be 
dominated by " the contradiction and struggle 
sought by a superpower versus the counter- 
hegemony involving numerous countries.” 


Wang, chairman of the Chinese People's 


Association for Friendship with Foreign 
Countries, indicated that despite the danger 
of war, the peoples of the world “are confi- 
dent of their ability to safeguard peace. “Any 
pessimistic outlook is unfounded.” he added. 
China has softened its stand .on the “inevita- 
bility” of war and even recently indicated 
that, in its view, a new world conflict could be 
averted. 

Zheng Senyu forecast that this year, 
"despite their differences over the appraisal 
of the Soviet threat and ways and means of 
dealing with it, the United States, western 
Europe and Japan will in general strive for 
better coordination and unity”. 


Reagan to hold talks with Portillo 


WASHINGTON. Jan. 3 (AFP) - 
President -elect Ronald Reagans meeting 
Monday with Mcxicjn President Jose Lopez 
Portillo is expected here to have Far greater 
implications than the “symbolic gesture” the 
new Republican administration says the visit 
represents. 

The visit. Reagan's first outside the U.S. 


after the presidential election, has been 
meticulously prepared. Several aides have 
been to Mexico to work out the details for the 
meeting. The two leaders will meet alone for 


only an hour at Ciudad Juarez* just over the 
border. No official agenda has been drawn up 
to avoid restricting a free exchange of views. 


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LONDON, Jan. 3 (AP) — The Times of 
London has said it remains open to further 
bids from potential buyers, despite the pas- 
sing of a new year’s eve deadline. 

Although the newspaper's management 
dedined to comment on the status of bids, a 
news report in the paper i tself said Friday , “It 
is understood if other serious potential pur- 
chasers appear they will not be turned away 
despite the passing of the deadline.” Two 
bidders made themselves known before the 
new year dawned: a consortium of Times 
journalists and their financial backers, and 
Robert Maxwell, owner of the Pergamon 
Press printing group. 

There were suggestions along Fleet Street, 
London's publishing row, of other bidders. 
But only one newspaper, The Daily Tele - 
graph, published a report to that effect, claim- 
ing The Timnes had received 1 0 firm offers. A 
spokesman for Thomson British Holdings, 
which owns The Times group of newspapers 
under the management of Canadian mil- 
lionaire Lord Thomson, refused to confirm or 
deny this. But the spokesman, Hugh Steven- 
son . pointed out that The Daily Telegraph had 
recently reported there were no bidders. 

He refused to comment on The Tele - 


graph ’s report that '‘two Arab interests who 
made bids were ignored” Spokesman at 7 ^ 

Times itself and at the merchant banker hand- ' 
ling the sale. S.G. Warburg, also dedined to 
say how many - bids had been received, 1 
“There's nothing new to be said.” said Tunes 
deputy editor Louis Heren. “ What I am say- ' 
ing is the truth " 

A Warburg spokesman said that os far as 
he was concerned, the deadline of midnight' 6 

Dec. 3 1 had been final. But he dedined to A * 
discuss the paragraph in the newspaper sug-^ , 1 * P 1 
gesting that further . offers would be coaa-tf T 
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On Oct. 22, Thomson, who had been- ' ' 
struggling with heavy financial losses and - 
union troubles for years, announced that The y 
Times, The Sunday Times and three literary ’ 
and educational supplements would -be' •* 
dosed in mid- March if a buyer is not fo und . 

He set the new year eve deadline to allow 
time for consideration of bids and for anv 
buyer to talk with the unions. 

On Thursday two groups formed by Times 
journalists announced a joint proposal to buy * 
The Times with the financial backing of sev- . ‘ 
era! businessmen. 


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CENSUS COUNT: An American looks up at the population counter for th< U.S. in the 
lobby of the Commerce Department in Washington. The figure reads 224,9*1,042. The 
Census Bureau submitted the figure to President Carter Wednesday. , 


100,000 allegedly detained 
without any trial in India 


Peking flays Dutch deal with Taipei 


PEKING. Jan. 3 ( AFP) ■— China Saturday 
expressed “indignation” over a decision by 
the Netherlands to sell two submarines to 
Taipei. 

The Communist Party newspaper ThePeo - 
pie ’s Daily reaffirmed official annoyance by 
publishing four letters from readers. This 
Chinese warning came while U.S. Senator 
Theodre Stevens was making the Reagan 
administration's first contact with Chinese 
leaders. Saturday. 

During his election campaign Reagan said 


he favored reinforced U.S. reUtions with 
Taiwan. China has already wamei Washing- 
ton indirectly several times that .uch rein- 
forcement would encounter “Chita's firm 
opposition." The Chinese government pro- 
tested orally to Dutch Ambassdor Jolananes 
Kncppelhout early last month afa has 
threatened the Hague with economic lepris- 
als if it delivers the submarines. 


NEW DELHI, Jan. 3 (AP) — More than 
1UD.0UD prisoners are being illegally 
detained in India without having stood trial, 
the Indian Express newspaper has claimed. 
More than half of the detentions were 
reported from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar 
states, the country' s most populous regions, 
the independent newspaper said Friday. 


An official government spokesman said he 
could not confirm the figures but said that the 
government was checking the report The 
Express said that many “undertrials'' remain 
in jail for six months to one year, and some 
prisoners are detained even after completing 
their sentences. “They are produced in court 




Thailand gets U.S. aid 


BANGKOK. Jan. 3 (AFP) - The United 
States has* given Thailand the first pan of a 
$2 million • grant to help combat pirate 
attacks on Vietnamese boat people in the 
Gulf of Thailand. The cheque was handed 
over Friday by U.S. Ambassador Morton 
Abraraowitz to Navy Commander-in-Chief 
Admiral Samut Sahanawin. 

The « gram follows a series of bilateral talks 
on boosting air and sea search capabilities to 
stem the attacks, which have sent an 
unknown number of refugees to a watery 
death. 

Bonn to build ice station 

PUNTA AREN AS. South era Chile Jan. 3 
(AFP) — West Germany will start construc- 
tion of its first Antarctic research station this 
month on ice 1 ,400 km. from the South Pole, 
it was learned here. Eight men would use the 
station in the winter and 5U in the summer. 
West German Ambassador Heinz Dittmann 
said here. 

The ice chosen by the Germans is a 4UU- 
metcr thick block 2.400 km south of the 
American continent. It is drifting toward the 
Wcdclt Sea. but experts believe lhe heat gen- 
erated by the station will mean the ice will 
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other and detained in jail as long as possible " 
the report said. 

The Express added that most of the -' 
detainees were kept on to work as cooks, W’ 
sweepers and washermen for jail officials and x , •• 
other prisoners. Under Indian law, a person : 
charged with a criminal offense cannot be., - ' 
detained in police custody for more than 24 
hours without being produced before aV ; ‘ 
magistrate. 

Meanwhile. Indian opposition leaders Fri- • j: r. • • 
day condemned a reported attack by police- “ft-i.j ' 
men on a rally of more than 1UU blind people ;T.. .. 
near Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's offiaai 
residence. The blind demonstrators repor- ^ » 
tedly were beaten up with truncheons and 
then briefly detained in a local police station 
Thursday. Newspapers Friday published 
front-page photographs of injured demons- ■* 

trators being dragged into police vans. 

Royal party fire hits 
U.K. news woman’s car:®' ■ 

LONDON, Jan. 3 (AP) — A royal shoot- ^ &n,: 
ing party was reported Saturday to have hit a u 

news woman’s car with a shotgun blast, while v., • 

Buckingham Palace was telling the press lo a i* :.:••• 
leave Queen Elizabeth II alone on hercus- .ijib.v.*:- 
tomaty new year vacation. i [ ... v : 

Shan Lancaster, a reporter on the Tabloid v:il . 
Sun, said her car was “peppered" with pellets 7-t*t i 


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hurt in the incident. The reporter said in a 
front-page story that after Prince Philip, the .- . 
Queen s husband, warned her to move away ( 
or risk being shot, she climbed back in her car * 
on a public road beside the estate.Then “pel- 
lets bounced off the car roof and a partridge J 
plummeted to the ground on the edge of the aM - '■ 1 
field” she wrote. ' 

Miss Lancaster did not identify who fired * 

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American swimmers dominate 



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.. GAINESVILLE, Florida, Jan. 3 (AP) - 
k^! Tracy Caul kins, Mary Meagher. Craig 
^ Beardsley and Rick Carey led die way with 
, Cn it-’ world- bat times as United States swimmers 
Vty .won five of 10 individual events Friday night 
tl^r in the 1981 US. International Swim Meet. 
The talented East German women won 
two individual races, the Soviet Union two 
<ie uj^ and West Germany one, on the first night of 
he jj^. finals in the biggest international swimming 
meet in 2% -years. Soviet athletes are making 


their first trip to the United States since last 
year’s Moscow Olympic boycott. 

American swimmers also won both the 
men’s and women's 400 meter freestyle 
rela>s. Swimming on a 25-meter course on 
which no official world records are possible. 
Caul kins overwhelming world record-holder 
and Olympic gold medalist UTE Geweniger 
of East Germany in the 100 breaststroke. 

Caulkins time of 1 minute. 7.47 seconds 
beat her own world best for a short couise of 


Steve Scott sparkles 


, SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3 (AJP) - 

I «hr t ' C ^ American record holder Steve Soon gave San 

II s Francisco its first-ever sub-four minute mile, 

T >-• inn, - as he outran an international field for 3: 59.6 
Uliuc fcj victory Friday night in the Runnels World 
s and (,• Indoor Classic at the Cow Palace. 

Scott, whose best indoor time is 3:53.0. 
hj - moved past Tre land’s Ray Flypn into first 
r "p.J place at the gun lap and held off Britain's 
a t ii n David Moorcraft at the finish. Moorcraft 
n finish e d in 4:01.3, followed by Flynn at 

d 4:01 .6 and American Don Paige at 4:04.7. 
In other key events daring the first meet of 
the indoor track season. Rod Dixon of New 
Zealand grabbed the lead in tbe3J)00-meter 
* run with two laps to go and won. Norway's 

di 76ers triumph 

s NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (AP) — After losing 
three games in a row, the Phfladdplua 76ezs 
,l " ' • l • . . deckled they needed something to dtange the 
pattern. So they held a birthday party for 
d nffia, ’ forward Steve Mix — and celebrated by 
l>iu j t breaking the losing streak. 

1 ' ,l ‘ > i% The party, followed by two days of hard 
"Mi-fr practice, did the trick as Philadelphia snap- 
'•'1 Ki ped out of its slump with a 120- 117 overtime 
victory over die Supersonics in Seattle Friday 
•it k-jdc night. 

h .'r ~ Erring led the way with 36 points and 12 
rebounds Philadelphia completed the first 
Ntfhr . half of the 82-game National Basketball 
Assoa'ation schedule with a 34-7 record, best 
»idH<t .' in the league. And the Boston Celtics, who 
f"V - had won 12 games in a row and pulled wi thin 

■*> i* - two of Philadelphia in the Atlantic Division 
k , race, dropped back a game as they bowed to 
u- \d» the Golden State Warriors 121-106. 

£ hjj "Boston forward Larry Bird, last season’s 
Rookie of die year, was held scoreless for the 
[.'.first time in his pro career. He played 37 
'minutes, missed all nine field goal attempts 
' rxid? . anH did not go to die foul line. 

1 ll ’ lu ' ■ . In other games, die Phoenix Suns edged 
dm Denver Nuggets 133-132, the Houston 
\ * Rockets trimmed die Dallas Mavericks 
l ' " n * 1 24— 1 20 in overtime, the San Antonio Spurs 

. , beat the Los Angela Lakers 118-112, the 
? Kansas Gty Kings beat the Utah Jazz 101- 
U ' E ' 95, the Detroit Pistons edged the New York 
' ' Km'cfes 102-100, the Indiana Pacers downed 
• uu - ' the Atlanta Hawks 209-106, the Cleveland 
1 n, '" r ' Cavaliersbeat the New Jersey Nets 111-105 
r| ri si * and die Chicago Bulls defeated the Washing- 
,aP ^ ton Bullets 92-82. 

''Tj. , Bobby Jones scored a dunk off die opening 

' i ‘ ‘ _ tip of overtime to put Philadelphia ahead to 
1 ' * r ’’ stay. Jones scored four more points in the 
|J ''^ ; . five-minute extra-period and Erving also 
1 • • scored four, while Seattle managed to hit just 

. ' one of five field goal tries. 

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.,ij it- • i The Somes had a chance to wrap up in 
regulations, with center James Donaldson at 
wiit- the foul line with 10 seconds left and Seattle 
„«• : leading 108-106. But the Roolde missed both 
tries to open the door, and Erving tipped his 
— own missed shot to Darryl Dawkins who 
dunked it with one second left to send it into 
overtime. 


Grcte Waitz breezed to a slow victory in the 
women’s 3.000 and Leo Williams of the Navy 
edged Arizona's James Frazier in the high 
jump. Williams won on fewer misses at 7-3. 
Olympian Dwight Stones missed at 7-3 after 
dealing 7-1. 

Waitz, who ran a world’s best time of 
8:50.8 in the 3,000 last year at the Cow 
Palace, ran a slow race after taking a huge 
lead on the first lap. She led by 40 meters at 
the halfway point and cruised home with a 
time of 9:05.6. 

Dixon, running his first indoor race in a 
year, docked 8:01.4 as he outkickcd Kenya's 
WOson Waigwa, who finished in 8:02.8. The 
early pace was set by Mike Slack, who held on 
to finish third after being passed by Dixon 
and Waigwa. Terry Colton was fourth. 

For Dixon, the vietdry at the San Frantisco 
Cow Palace was his second in as many races 
since flying to the United Stales earlier this 
week. On New Year’scve. he won a 5- mile (8 
km) midnight ran in New York City. 

Despite having to fly from New Zealand to 
New York and back to San Francisco, he 
appeared strong and said that "as the laps 
churned away. I felt better and better." 

Emmit King of Alabama edged Ray 
Tbreatt of the University of Arizona to win 
the men’s 50- meter dash in 5.74. 


1:08.84 set in Friday's preliminaries, with 
Geweniger far behind in the finals in 1 :09.79. 

But Caulkins’ superiority in the starts and 
turns didn’t help her in the 200 butterly as 
Meaguer swamped the world best standard 
by 3 Vz seconds in 2:05.65. Caulkins was sec- 
ond in 2:07.24 and Olympic gold medalist 
lnes Geissler of East Germany was far bade 
in third in 2:11.69. 

> Carey broke his own world best of 1:59.67 
m the men’s 200 backstroke by just .18 sec- 
ond, with Vladimir Shemetov of the Soviet 
Union second, and 100 backstroke Olympic 
winner Bengt Baron of Sweden third in 
2:02.13. 

. Beardsley, the world record-holder in the 
200 butterfly, established a world best in the 
short-course event with a 1:57.19 perfor- 
mance. Sergei Fesenko of the Soviet Union, 
the Olympic gold medalist, was third in the 
event. 

The fifth individual American winner was 
David McCagg, who came from behind to nip 
Olympic gold medal winner Jorg Woithe of 
East Germany. McCagg was timed in 48.70 
and Woithe in 48.9. 

Ines Diers of East Germany, who won four 
individual medals at Moscow, including a 
gold in the 400 freestyle, won the 800 frees-* 
tyle here in 8:27.79, with American Karin 
La berge second in 8:32.04. 

East Germany’s other victory Friday night 
came in the women's 100 freestyle as Caron 
Metschuck edged Cynthia Woodhead (U.S.) 
5535 seconds to 55.60. Woodhead later 
joined Caulkins, Maegher and Susie Thayer 
to win the 400 freestyle relay. 

The Soviet Union, which made its best 
showing in the Moscow Games inthe absence 
of the United States last year, won the men's 
800 freestyle and the women’s 200 back- 
stroke. 

Alexander Chaev , the silver medalist in the 
Olympic 1,500 meters, won the 800 in 
7:52.51 and Lara Gortshakova took the 200 
backstroke in 2:13.23. 


Record knock by Chappell 


SYDNEY, Jan. 3 (AFP) — Australian cap- 
tain Greg Chappell overcame a virus which 
kept him up in die night to hit a rcecord 204 
against India in their first Test at the Sydney 
Cricket ground Saturday. 

Chappell defied the Indians for 408 
minutes, hitting 27 boundaries in a perfor- 
mance which eclipsed the former Australian 
record against India, 201 by Don Bradman in 
Adelaide in 1947-48. 

Chappell was so ill from vomiting and diar- 
rhoea last night that a doctor was summoned 
to his motel to give him treatment. Chappell 
had a bread and cheese sandwhich for break- 
fast and continued to have treatment 
throughout the day. 

Yet, his innings was faultless. He did not 
give a chance in his entire innings. ChappeQ 
and Doug Waiters (67) shared a fifth-wicket 
parmersiup of 1 72 mm in 151 minutes. 
By stumps bn thesecond day, Australia were 
388 for nine in its first innings in reply to 
India's 201. 

In was ChappetT s 18th century and third 
double century in a career of 65 tests. In 1974, 
Chappell hit 247 not out against New Zea- 
land in Wellington and last year he hit 235 
against Pakistan in Faisalabad. Extra ordinar- 
ily enough, despite his illness, Chappell sur- 
passed even the Indian team's first innings 
total with his score. 

Opening bowler Kapil Dev was by far the • 
most dangerous of the Indian bowlers, dis- 
missing the first four Australian batsmen . But 
when the second new ball was taken, left-arm 
pace bowler Karsan Ghavri took five for 17 in 
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Score-board 

INDIA (1st innings): 201 

AUSTRALIA (1st innings): 

G. Wood c Kirmani b Kapil Dev 9; J. 
Dyson c Gavaskar b Kapil Dev 0; G. Chap- 
pell c Kapil Dev b Ghavri 204; K. Hughes c 
Kirmani b Kapil Dev 24; A. Border c Kir- 
mani b Kapil Dev 31; D. Walters c Viswanath 
b Ghavri 67; R. Marsh c Binny b Ghavri 12; 
D. Lillee c Doshi bGhavri 5; R. Hogg notout 
13; L. Pascoe c Doshi bGhavri 7; J. Higgs not 
out 1. Exons 15. Total (for 9 wkts.) 388 
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-3, 2-14, 3-95, 
4-169, 5-341, 6-355, 7-363, 8-366, 9-376. 

BOWLING: KapD Dev 33-6-94-4; Ghavri 
27-6-102-5; Binny 13-1-64-0; Doshi 27-0- 
103-0; Chauhan 1-0-10-0. 

Prodigal Pakistan held 

By Shahid Orakzai 
Arab Mews Correspondent 

LAHORE, Jan. 3 — Visiting Kenyan 
national hockey team shocked Pakistan when 
they held the World Champions to 1-1 draw 
in the only hockey ‘Test’ of their eight-match 
tour here Friday. 

Pakistan achieved the lead in 10th minute 
of second half when spearhead Mushtaq 
scored foil owing a bade pass from left-out 
SamhiUah. The African champions fought 
bade and scored the equalizer just three 
minutes before the final whistle through 
inside left Harvinder Singh, who converted a 
penalty- corner. 

The visitors playing a defensive game pul- 
led back their wingers to check inroads by 
Pakistan forwards. Kenyan custodian, 
George Moos, proved a perfect shield for his 
side. He saved four sure attempts in just ten 
minutes in the second half. 

Pakistanis dominated the proceedings, but 
lacked good finish. Kenyan skipper left-half 
Suijit S ingh, along with full backs Juluis 
Akumu and Lucas Alubha checked die short 
passes. 

For the homeside star left-winger Sanriul- 
lah shone, piercing the Kenyan circle many 
times, but his solo efforts never materialized. 
His younger right-winger KalimuDah, how- 
ever, proved much below his normal as he 
failed to pick up passes. 

Pakistan earned four penalty-comers in 
the first half while the visitors were con- 
tended with just one corner. But in second 
half they got five penalty- comers, converting 
the last. 

Pakistani forwards failed to combine, 
reflecting sheer lack of understanding. 
Center-forward Mushtaq, the only scorer, 
was unable to convert easy passes by winger 
Samiullah. In the 24th minute he pushed 
wide after all the defenders were beaten by 
Sami. 

Teacher moves ahead 

MELBOURNE, Jan. 3 (AP) — American 
Brian Teacher won his way Saturday night 
into the Australian Open final by winning a 
six-hour, rain-extended marathon match 
against Australian Peter McNamara. 
Teacher won 6-7. 7-5, 6-3, 6-4. 

Top-seeded Guillermo Vilas of Argentina 
trailed Australian Kim Warwick in the sec- 
ond semi-final match Saturday night It was 
halted because of darkness with Warwick 
leading two sets to one by overcoming Vilas* 
7-6 victory with 5-4 and 6-2 triumphs. 


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Hilal maintains the lead 


By Munir Muhammad AH 

JEDDAH, Jan. 3 — Hilal battled 
Qadisiyya to win 1-0 in the last minute of the 
match in Riyadh Friday. Meanwhile, Ahli 
defeated Shabab 2-1 in Jeddah after a mild 
game, with that the four major teams settled 
in the four top positions of the National 
Football League. 

Thursday, Nasr barely survived a draw 
with Ittifaq in Dammam. Nasr was losing 2- 1 
until the last 15 minutes of the match. Majed 
Abdullah scored two goals in the 32nd and 
45th minutes giving his team the upper hand. 
Ittihad played against Riyadh in Riyadh and 
won 3- 1 , but it appeared in a shaky form after 
the repeated losses in the past weeks. 

The hopeful Nadha was also stopped by 
Jabalein in Hail. They drew 0-0 after an 
equally dominated game. • Nahda’s forwards 
were in its best form, but Jabalein's defense 
too played well Nahda’s goalkeeper, Khali- 
dein, one of the best in Saudi Arabia, smartly 
blocked several shots by Jabalein’s forwards. 

Hilal survived Qadisiyya' s challenge at the 
most critical time in the team's history. Hilar s 
Brazilian player, Roberto Rivelino, has been 
suspended for two months: Najib Imam , 
HUaTs Tunisian striker, is reported to be suf- 
fering from an injury, and has been hospital- 
ized; Fahudi and Samir Sultan are also 
injured; Fahd AJ-Habashi and Sultan Al- 
Muhana have been banned from playing for 


six months and one month respectively by the 
Saudi Arabian Football Federation. 

Hilal had to play with a totally new attack, 
except for Brazlian Dieh. Kha led AJ- 
Ghanim. Fahd Abdul Wahid and Abdul 
Rahman Al-Qahiani were among the new 
faces introduced Friday. Qadisiyya lost three 
opportunities to score in the game. All three 
time, the ball hit the pole and bounced back. 
HilaTs win secored them two precious points 
and kept the team in the lead. In the last 
minute of die second half, Qadisiyya’ s goalie, 
Ibrahim Al- Yusuf . bounced the ball to kick 
and by Musaibieh into the net. 

On the other side, Ahli came back strongly 
after last week's heavy defeat to Nasr. The 
first ended with two goals for Ahli scored by 
Amin Dabu in the 26th minute and Zenon 
few minutes later. Shaban scored into only 
goal through Brazilian Francesco in the 35th 
minute, but Ahli missed many good oppor- 
tunities. 

Standings: 


Hilal 

Nasr 

Ittihad 

Ahli 

Qadisiyya 

Nahda 

Ittifaq 

Shabab 

Jabalein 

Riyadh 


T LGF GAPts. 

3 2 29 14 17 

2 3 35 22 16 
5 2 25 11 15 

4 3 18 17 14 
1 5 18 18 13 

5 3 17 18 13 

3 5 20 19 11 
3 5 19 18 11 
3 7 8 24 6 
1 10 6 30 3 


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Another Brazil 
player injured 

MONTEVIDEO, Jan. 3 (AP) — BraaTs 
build-up for the Gold Cup Soccer Tourna- 
ment took anoiher setback Friday when 
lank y forward Serginho pulled out of a train- 
ing session with a back injury. 

Serginho left the field after 30 minutes of a 
practice match at Los Aromas 23 kilometers 
outside Montevideo, and team officials said 
he had pulled muscles near the base of bis 
spine. 

Brazil which plays World Cup holder 
Argentina in its first march Sunday, has 
already lost key forward Zico and Ronaldo 
through injury. 

Argentina won its opening match 2-1 
against European champion West Germany 
and will qualify for the final if it defeats 
Brazil. 

Brazilian coach Tele Santana, who admit- 
ted that injuries, were "a problem” put his 
squad through a long training session Friday 
morning, including a 60 - minute match. 

Meanwhile Italy make their debut Satur- 
day against Uruguay, who beat Dutch oppos- 
ition 2-0 in the opening match last Tuesday. 

Uruguay have plunged from the heights of 
1950 when they won the World Cup but 
recent international results have been impre- 
ssive. 

They deserved their win over the Dutch 
and with the advantage of the crowd, famil- 
iarity with the Centenario Stadium and over 
two months of careful preparation, they are 
no easy opponents. 

Italian manager Enzo Bearzot does not 
underestimate the task.*Tve always believed 
that tactically Uruguayan football was the 
best in South America — what happens is 
that many times they have lacked good for- 
wards and their good tactical work was 
squandered,” he told a press conference. 

Bearzot is not worried about the effects of 
the heat on players who have exchanged 
midwinter Italy for the Uruguayan summer, 
with noon temperatures of 30 centi grades 
and more. “In Italy in summer it’s hotter than 
here,” he said. 

The Group 'A* match follows the first 
match in the other half of the competition. 
Group “ E’ in which Argentina won a drama- 
tic victory over West Germany last night. 

The result made Argentina, 1978 World 
champions, favorites for the Cup, which is 
being contested by five past World Cup win- 
ners and the Netherlands, deputising for the 
sixth. England, the Group winners meet in • 
the final on January 10. 

The Italians will need to watch 20-year-old 
Ruben Paz, a dashing midfielder, who some 
observers compose with the young Argentina 
genius, Diego Maradona. 

The tireless speed of Paz caused the Dutch 
many a headache on Tuesday but Venando 
Ramos, who scored one of the goals, and 
fullback Jose Moreira, who made repeated 
sallies down the wing, were equally effective. 
When the teams met last year, Italy won 1-0, 
but that was in Milan. 


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BOKASSA’ S ‘HUMAN RIGHTS’ 

Former “Emperor" Bokassa of the Central Afri- 
can Republic, currently residing in the Ivory Coast, 
wrote to French President Giscard <f Estaing asking 
for his backing in the United Nations, He had 
already made a plea to the international body, pro- 
testing that his “human rights'*, specifically the 
right to a fair trial, have been violated. The regime 
which ousted him has tried him in absentia and 
sentenced him to death, for crimes of appalling 
nature and magnitude — among them the killing 
and eating of school children who had demons- 
trated against his corrupt and brutal regime. 

What gives cause for reflection in this is not the 
belated conversion of a man like Bokassa to the 
cause of “human rights" and “fair trials”: It is 
rather that there are so many Bokassas around the 
world still awaiting their turn to plead that noble 
cause as misfortune overtakes them. What such 
rulers have in common, and few of them can be 
compared to the ex-“ emperor” in brutality and cor- 
ruption, is their usurpation of power through the 
military coup, which event they immediately 
declare a “fully fledged revolution”, with them- 
selves as the “revolutionary leaders." 

Little is then heard of “human rights", as such 
“revolutionaries” run their countries for their own 
personal profit, and as they persecute all who do not 
willingly surrender everything to the “leader” and 
his henchmen. Then the turn of such “leaders” and 
their regimes comes, as Bokassa' s turn came, when 
they immediately start bewailing the loss of “human 
rights" — if they were lucky, like him, to make good 
their timely escape. 


By Anthony Holden 

WASHINGTON — 
Like Lewis CarrolTs Cheshire Cat. Jimmy Car- 
ter’s presidency lingers only in the shape of that 
gim t defiant in defeat, self-confident still beneath 
die landslide. The rest of it was snuffed out with 
unexpected brutality at the dimax of die year of the 
interminable campaign. 

The story erf 1 980 is that of the most protracted, 
laborious and expensive disappearing act in Ameri- 
can political history. The image of die year — sym- 
bolic, in harsh hindsight, of the Carterpresidency — 
has to be those eight burned-out helicopters 
spreadeaglcd across the Iranian desert 
As the dust settles cm a radically altered political 
landscape, one central truth is already dear. Carter 
proved above all to be what Americans do not want 
their president to be. Their dramatic repudiation of 
him says as much about th e office as about the man . 

On paper. Carter can (and will) muster a passable 
list of accomplishments. In foreign policy, above all. 
the Camp David accords — a major if now faltering, 
step toward Middle East peace; the Panama Canal 
treaties; the nor malizat ion of relations with fhina; 
the emphasis on human rights abroad. 

Biggest pins: keeping American troops out of 
combat. Biggest minus: failure to secure Senate 
ratification of die second Strategic Aims Limitation 
Treaty. , 

. Achievements at home: development (at the 
fourth attempt) of a national energy policy, deregu- 
lation of business and industry, reorganization of 
the civil service, evenhanded judicial appointments. 


.establishment of a separate department of educa- 
tion. 

The list of failures, alas, is considerably longer. 
Inflation, inherited from Gerald Ford at 4.7 per 
cent, stood early this year at an annual rate of 18 per 
cent. Unemployment, which he promised to “cut in 
half," stands where it was at 8 per cent Other 1976 
campaign promises, all unfulfilled: to halanm die 
budget, reform the tax system cat down the 
bureaucracy, reduce federal spending, institute a 
national health insurance program, reduce defense 
spending. 

Abroad, tiie Carter presidency became a familiar 
and sorry saga of vacillation, inconsistency and 
U-turns, best characterized perhaps by his naive 
astonishment that Brezhnev might dare to tcllhima 
fib. An “unacceptable” Soviet combat brigade in 
Cuba was meekly accepted. The Russians, despite 
the anger of Olympic athletes, remained in 
Afghanistan, and the United States hostages in 
Tehran. 

1 Americans, deeply humiliated by their impo- 
tence against Iran,. were also acutely aware of the 
murmurs of discontent from Europe. Chancellor 
Schmidt became something of a hero for his open 
contempt of Carter’s unpredictability. 

Mrs. Thatcher, whatever she was doing to the 
British^economy, was seen as displaying positively 
Churchfllian qualities of leadership. 

All occasions informed against Carter, however 
ruthlessly he used the incumbency for personal 
electoral advantage. His shoddy autumn campaign 
insulted the voters’ intelligence, reminding them 
only of how much he wanted to remain president. 


without expl aining why he deserved to. At tire last 
his rejection was so absolute that he took his party 
down with him. 

History, at first flush, seems likely to bracket 
Carter with Herbert Hoover, remembered 50 years 
on as a ‘ well-intentioned flop. A kinder fate would 
cast huq as an accident of history, elected from 
nowhere amid post- Watergate disenchantment to a 
job he simply couldrf t master. 

To a job, as his apologists argue, which has grown 
too big for any oue man? Carter cannot be held to 
have proven that Itis not the fault of tire office that 
this president behaved with such misguided arrog- 
ance toward Congress, or that he chose to entrust 
such power to rude Georgian mediocrities. Nor can 
any president hope to function effectively while 
remaning aloof from the mainstream of his party, 
white failing to preserve die broad coalition which 
elected him. The insular, self-obsessed Jimmy Car- 
ter was his own worst enemy, so rapt in the agonies 
of making decisions as to ignore the more important 
agonies of getting them implemented. 

No pr cadent, moreover, can cany the people 
with him unless be can. communicate a. grand. and 
common vision. If Carter had such a vision, such a 
political philosophy — which must remain in doubt 
— be certainly couldn’t communicate it. The man 
who began with fireside chats and phone-ins, bring- 
ing the presidency doser to die people, leaves office 
regarded as a cold fish, one of the most distant least 
known -American leaders of recent memory. 

When his presidency was on Its knees, in the 
summer of 1979jtis remedy was to summon the 
readers of entrails to a mountain-top, then lecture 


the country about its supposed “malaise". He was 
at his most impressive, by contrast, in one-to-one 
conversation, displaying his mastery of the fine 
print of any available issue — at the level, in other 
words, of a skilled administrative aide, drafting 
memos of pros and cons for a more ideological 
master. 

The Carter years, in short, provide archetypal 
proof that there is more to the art of governance 
than merely managing the government. It is a useful 
lessen for America to have learned. 

Ronald Reagan, furthermore, dearly wishes to 
be seen to have learned from Carter’s mistakes. He 
is setting dear priorities, and wooing those he need 
to enact them. He is reducing the power of the 
unelected White House staff, returning it to cabinet 
and Congress, where it belongs. It is also unlikely 
that his wife will sit in on cabinet meetings. 

The last thing anyone expects of Reagan is that be 
"ill get bogged down in day-to-day administrative 
detafl. His delegating skills were to the fore in 
California, and will be again in Washington. The 
stress of the Carter White House on constant high- 
pressure activity will be replaced by a less frenetic, 
better-oiled government machin e reminiscent of 
the “sleepy” Eisenhower years. 

The president, most tikety, will be much less vis- 
ible, less eager in his search for instant crises to 
discuss in grave tones on network television. He will 
seek to restore to the White House, as to the nation, 
die air of grandeur and prestige it has surrendered 
in recent years. He will play farad of state as much as 
chief executive. . 


Behind Begin’s ‘moderation* over Golan Heights 


By Dial Torgerson 

TEL AVIV — 

Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin, who has 
a flair for die outrageous, has taken a small step in 
the direction of moderation: he has led his govern- 
ment and parliament to rejectamoveto unilaterally 
annex tire Golan Heights. Observers. of the Begin 
style were surprised. Surely, they thought, the man 
who let the Jerusalem trill become law — infuriating 
a good part of the world — could be counted on to 
do what would make tire most people the maddest. 

The proposed Golan Heigihs law would have 
extended Israeli sovereignty to the occupied Syrian 
territory, just as the Jerusalem fall passed last sum- 
mer extended Israeli sovereignty officially to all of 
Jerusalem. 

Israelis are almost as dedicated to retaining the 
Golan Heights as they are to holding Jerusalem. 
But Begin let events run their course with the 
Jerusalem law, saying that he would not interfere in 
the legislative process, yet he led his cabinet to 
recommend that parliament take the Golan Heights 
bill off calender. What changed? Why this new 
moderation? 

“The prime minister wasn't trying to appear 
moderate,” said one government official. “He was 


only being moderate.” Begin, he meant, was not 
trying to suddenly improve his image. Begin does 
not care that much about matters of image, like the 
late A1 Capp’s Mammy Yokum, who said she never 
apologized because she never made wws talres 
Begin resolutely does what he believes is right He 
gave thumbs down on the Golan Heights bill 
because he did not think it was right. 

“It would have led to gratuitious trouble,” said an 
aide. “And Begin knew it.” 

The United States has several times spelled oat 
for the Begin government its opposition to the 
annexation of the Golan Heights. It wBuld, for one 
thing, run counter to U-N. Security Council Resolu- 
tion 242 of 1967, the basis for the Camp David 
agreements, which calls for “withdrawal of Israeli 
armed forces from territories of recent conflict.” 
Such an annexation could endanger all Middle East 
peace talks, as U.S. Special Ambassador Sol 
Linowitz told Begin in a visit here last month. 

Begin dearly’ aid not wish to antagonize the 
United States at a time when a new administration 
was taking over. But, his assistants say, he did not 
knuckle under to American pressure. “ Certainly he 
was influenced by the general reaction to the 
Jerusalem fall,” said one official in Jerusalem. “ but 
then he was also reacting to Geula Cohen.” 


(JoUen, once a member of the Iigun underground 
that Begin headed before Israel's existence, was a 
member of the Knesset (parliament) in Begin’s 
Likud coalition but quit because of her opposition 
to the Camp David accords. Vociferous, outspoken, 
intemperate, rite introduced the Jerusalem fall that 
even her detractors were afraid to oppose. Aggran- 
dized by its passage, she sought another parliamen- 
tary coup by introducing the Golan Heights bilL 

But this time Begin balked. Without himself tak- 
ing a public stand, he artfully managed its demise — 
perhaps, some said, as much to thwart Cohen as to 
pioneer an era of moderation. 

The lessons of the Jerusalem bill extend beyond 
image making. Israelis are used to suffering defeats 
in Hasbara the Hebrew word that combines tile 
concept of public relations and propaganda. “Begin 
didn’t let Hasbara influence Itis decisions;” said a 
high ranking public-relations official in the gov- 
ernment. “We in Hasbara are used to being Id deed 
around. But the Jerusalem fall didn’t just cause 
Hasbara damage, it caused real political damage. 
The embassies left, and that hurt” 

Thirteen foreign embassies that had been in 
Jerusalem for years,* were polled out by fhdr gov- 
ernments under pressure from Arab states after the 


passage of Cohen’s bill. It left Israel isolated as 
never before in the international scepe. An Israeli 
annexation of the Golan Heigths could have a simi- 
lar effect — although with nd embassies left to 
move, foreign nations would have to find a new way 
of expresang distaste for Israel actions. 

Begin was aided in his parliamentary squelch of 
superhawk Cohen by the opposition Labor Party 
arid its newly endorsed leader, Shimon Peres. Peres, 
strengthened by his overwhelming defeat erf inter- 
party rival Ytizhak Rabin at the party convention 
last month, -firmly reminded pro-annexationists 
with Labor that the party platform stands for ter- 
ritorial compromise for peace. The Labor hawks 
then withdrew support from Cohen’s bifl. When 
Cohen’s little two-member Renaissance Party tried 
to make Begin’s handling of the Golan Heights 
issue a matter for a no-confidence vote last mouth, 
Peres had Labor abstain, and the Likud coalition 
easily survived. 

None of the major parties in Israel favors with- 
drawing from the Golan Heights- Almost all Israelis 
want continued Israeli control of the' Heights. The. 
only issue is how to arrange to stay there. For now, 
annexation as a" solution Israel will apparently 
reject. (LAD 


Saudi Arabian Press Review 


At Bilad carried as a lead story Crown Prince 
Fahd's reaffirmation that “our aim is to serve the 
Islamic faith.” Al Nadwa led with the crown prince’s 
statement in which he stressed the significance of 
agricultural development and building of a modem 
army. Okaz gave lead prominence to the Saudi Ara- 
bian and the United Arab Emirates’ proposals to end 
the Iraq-Irm war. In a lead story ,AJJaan*k highligh- 
ted the Jerusalem Committee's stress on military 
coordination among confrontation states, the Pales- 
tine Liberation Organization and Islamic states. Al 
Riyadh gave lead coverage to a statement by the 
director, general of the Real Estate Development 
Fund, in which he is reported to have said that no 
increase in die loans is being considered and exemp- 
tions would be given to citizens who continue to 
repay the loans regularly. Al Medina said in a lead 
stoiy that Western strategy in the region would con- 
centrate on the Gulf. 

In a front-page story, the newspapers reported that 
the Israeli enemy burned the bodies of five Palesti- 
nian commandos in South Lebanon. Okaz frontpaged 
a statement by the Minister of Post, Telegraph and 
Telephones in which he said that 450,000 telephone 
hookups would be provided during the current year. 
Newspapers gave front-page coverage to a statement 
by Sheikh Khaled ibn Saqr Al-Qassimi, beir- 
apparent of Ras Ai-Khaima. in which he expressed 
the hope that King KhasIecTs efforts to boost the 
Mecca Islamic summit conference would give a new 
spur to the strategy of solidarity. Iran's reported 


admission of being unable to turn from a defensive to 
an offensive position appeared prominently in Al 
Nadwa newspaper. 

Newspaper editorials highlighted the significance 
of the outcome of King Khaled 1 s recent tours of 
Qasim and Hail regions and gave prominence to the 
crown prince’s statement in which he outlined the 
strategic dimensi ons of the role which the upcoming 
Islamic summit is expected to play in Mecca. Al 
Medina said in an editorial that the King was able to 
realize his objective by meeting his people and 
acquainting himself with the projects now being 
implemented in the two regions. The Kingdom's 
leadership has-made the people accustomed to look 
forward to more achievements, the paper said, 
adding that the government would never spare any 
effort in serving Arabs and Muslims everywhere. 

Al BUad spoke about theKingdom’s role in unify- 
ing Muslims and highlighted the crown prince’s 
statement on the strategic dimensions of the Mecca 
Summit. It said that the crown prince's vision of the 
summit's task reflects the Kingdom's role in uniting 
the Islamic nation, so its able to confront the blatant 
challenge of the nation’s enemies. 

Al Yom noted in an editorial that the Islamic sum- 
mit would be a historic event of the present century, 
as it is expected to discuss all issues concerning the 
Islamic world. The paper said confidently that the 
Islamic states possess unlimited potentialities, but 
only need reorganization and a spur to confront their 
enemies. It reiterated that the Kingdom has exerted 


every possible effort in thejpreparatian of the summit 
conference and would be ready to bear the respon- 
sibilities with unending cotirage and sneerity. But the 
paper urged the Islamic states to realize their own 
responsibility toward this great Islamic congregation 
and work for the achievement of Islamic unity and 
solidarity. 

Discussing the same subject, Okaz observed that 
Arab and lRlaim> activities before the convening of 
the summit reaffirm the iability to cope with the 
realities and to prepare a fongeniaJ atmosphere for 
the conference. The patter urged the Arab and 
Islamic world to work with full consciousness of the 
machin ations of the Cbmixjunist forces and their fore- 
ign powers which are trying to shake the peace and 
security of the nation. In a reference to the Arab 
Reconciliation Committee's activities, the paper 
noted that die progress it has achieved so far provides 
evidence that die Arab nation is capable of taking full 
responsibility of confronting the conspiracies against 
its legitimate rights. ; 

Al Jazirah said the Reconciliation Committee’s 
shuttle between Iraq. Syria and Jordan has taken 
place with the leaderships dear vision of the realiza- 
tion of the noble objectives of the Arab nation. The 
committee’s activities, just before the Islamic summit 
conference, take place as a result of the initiatives 
provided by Prince Abdullah, second deputy premier 
and commander of the National Guard, for stamping 
out differences between Syria and Jordan. 



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Saturn’s largest moon 


oiabnews Features 


Golden Titan fascinates space scientists 


By Thomas O’Toole 

Imagine a moon with an aluminum core 
surrounded by ice and covered by nitrogen 
gas under an ocean of liquid acetylene, the 
waves of which are whipped by winds of 
methane. 

If you can imagine that moon.you' re think- 
ing about Titan, the largest of Saturn's IS 
moons, the 12th one out and die most 
body in the solar system. Its gold 
color fascinates scientists, who have long 
known that Titan is the only oae of the solar 
system's 37 moons with an atmosphere. Now, 
thanks to a sfiver-and-biack spacecraft 
named Voyager that flew by Titan in 
November, they know this golden moon. 
5-12ths (he size of Earth, has an atmosphere 
that’s denser and deeper than Earth’s atmos- 
phere, and is made up of nitrogen, the basic 
component of all the living things that we 
fcnow of, and methane — natural gas, the 
same stuff you bum to wann-a bouse. 

“We know there's an object out there 
whose atmosphere has just as much nitrogen 
as Earth,” said Michael McElroy of Harvard 
University. (The air we breathe is 78 per cent 
nitrogen.) “Titan is by far the most interest- 
ing thing in die outer solar system." 

From die still-incomplete data that scien- 
tists are poring over, McElroy paints a vivid 
picture of how he thinks Tuan was formed. A 
star 20 times the size of our sun exploded 
almost five billion years ago, he suggests, 
scattering radioactive debris across billions of 
miles of space and into the vicinity of what is 
now our solar system. Amidst the Aebris was 
la huge hot ball of radioactive aluminum-26, 
■which drew clouds of ice and dust to its sear- 
ing surface. That was the start of Titan. 

“The principal gases accumulating on his 
body were methane and ammonia, which 
quickly broke down into nitrogen and hyd- 
rogen,” McElroy said. “What you finish up 
with after the ahmunum loses its radioactivity 
and gets colder is a rock of still relatively 
warm aluminum surrounded by nitrogen gas, 

which is surrounded by an ocean of acetylene, 
surrounded by nitrogen in droplet form and 
nw riume gas. An intriguing celestial body.” 

Cornell University’s Carl Sagan paints an 
even mote intriguing picture from his reading 
of the data. Sagan imagines the surface of 
Titan to be an ocean of ammonia and water, 
which in combination stays liquid below the 
freezing points of either ammonia and water 
on their own. The ocean is also thought to be 
kept warm by a greenhouse effect that traps 
heat in the atmosphere. 


The atmosphere of nitrogen and methane 
gets broken down by the sun's ultraviolet 
light into a broad mixture of almost every 
organic chemical seen in interstellar space. 
Formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, acetylene, 
ethane, propane and octane. The last four 
chemicals, particularly, release tremendous 
energy when burned, which accounts for the 
idea that it rains gasoline on Titan. This rain 
produces a sticky tar called “tholins." which 
is Greek for tar and which may have covered 
the surface of the earth four billion years ago, 
before life began to form. 

“Titan is a planet-sized laboratory of pre- 
biolqgzcal chemistry that’s been at work for 
four billion years,” Sagan says. “That’s a 
small planet tbaf s worth a visit." 

Voyager’s trip to Saturn was dearly worth 
the visit. When it flew beneath the majestic 
rings of Saturn, the spacecraft found the 
planet circled by at least 1 ,000 rings. Voyager 
discovered three new moons around Saturn 
and two red spots in its douds, permanent 
hurricanes that gave the planet a Jupiter look. 
It saw winds speeding Saturn's douds around 
the planet at 900 miles at hour, faster than the 
speed of sound in our atmosphere. It saw a 
crack in a moon of Saturn called Mimas that if 
it has been any bigger would have split the 
moon in two. 

“There might have been hundreds of 
moons around Saturn at one time," said 
Tobias Owen of the State University of New 
York at Stony Brook. “The moons we doa't 
see may have been all destroyed by impacts 
over time.” 

The passage of Voyager under the rings 
may lead to an explanation of why the/ re still 
there. The prevailing theory had long been 
that Saturn’s moons keep the rings together 
— that their different positions and ortritmg- 
speeds just outside the rings kept the rings 
fenced in. 

Every time Mimas goes around the planet, 
a moon interior to Mimas goes around the 
planet, a moon interior to Mimas goes a round 
twice and a moon exterior to Mimas makes a 
half swing around Saturn. All moving at dif- 
ferent speeds, they pull and mg on the rings in 
ways that might leave gaps between the rings. 
Each of Saturn's 1 5 moons could create 40 or 
50 gaps. They may be why there are 1,000 
rings. 

All but one of the rings showed up red in 
the Voyager pictures. The inner-most ring 
appeared bine, no matter how the sun lighted 
it. That’s puzzling. Almost every body in the 
solar system is red, almost nothing is blue. 
Earth's sky, with its nitrogen content, is one 

20 ships seized 


exception, why is the inner ring of Saturn 
blue? 

“Blue is a color we just don't sec,” Sagan 
said. “A blue anything that isn't an atmos- 
phere i$ very interesting because it is very 
peculiar.” 

It's easier to explain the red color of the 
rest of the rings. Sagan thinks the rings may 
all be dusted with the thin coating of the 
tholins that stain the douds of Titan. Where 
do the tholins come from? They may all come 
from Titan, as the top of its atmosphere was 
boiled off by the moon's passage back and 
forth through the electricity charged mag- 
netosphere of the planet. That would stain 
the other moons and the rings of Saturn in a 
way that doesn't happen anywhere else in the 
solar system. 

Talk as they do about the rings, most scien- 
tists still come back to Titan when they speak 
of Voyager's mission to Saturn. Titan, the 
golden moon that looks like a frozen .primi- 
tive Earth. For years, sdemists tougbt the 
atmosphere surrounding Titan was ethane. 
Voyager found the methane was only a haze 
above the real atmosphere, which was almost 
pure nitrogen. 

“We wept looking for nitrogen on Venus 
and didn't find it, and we went looking for 
nitrogen on Mars and did* nt find it,” said the 
University College of London's Garry Hunt. 
“Now we have it, a major nitrogen atmos- 
phere that means we have another Earth- like 
planet one billion miles from the sun.” 

Titan looks Earth -like in other ways. Voy- 
ager found a t least two haze layers over Titan, 
bolhcoloreda vivid purple and made of drop- 
lets of nitrogen, methane and hydrogen 
cyanide. These are the same organic chemi- 
cals that conspired to bring forth life on Earth 
more than three billion years ago. 

“In the study of primitive atmospheres, 
hydrogen cyanide is always a link into amino 
adds and we all know what that means," 
Hunt said. Amin o adds are the building 
blocks of life as we know it. Tm not saying 
that' s life on Titan, but in the coldest regions 
of Earth there are primitive forms of life. I 
don't think we can say the same thing can't 
happen on Titan.*’ 

How cold is it on Titan? A body that far 
from the sun theoretically should be no 
warmer than 87 degrees above absolute zero . 
(364 degrees below zero Fahrenhdt) but 
Voyager found a greenhouse effect that 
warmed it as much as 33 degrees above that. 
Sdentists analyzing the Voyager tapes still 
don't know Titan’s surface temperature. 
Some think the surface temperature might be 


China launches war against smugglers 


By Michael Parks 

PEKING, China has gone to war against 
smugglers whose fishing-junk fleets have 
been bringing in televisions, tape recorders, 
wiisnwatches,^ sunglasses and other luxury 
hems by die tens of thousands hnd taking out 
millions of dollars in gold, silver coins and 
antiques in payment. 

Chinese naval gunboats, deployed in 
strength along the coast and backed by spot- 
ter planes, have seized more than 20 ships, 
often with more than $1 million in goods 
aboard, and have driven off five times that 
number in the 'last -two months, according to 
official sources. 

Severer gun battles have broken out, and 
nine' smugglers reportedly have been killed, 
two whose shipmates said they had 
been summerily executed by Chinese sailors 
a week ago. 

“Smuggling has increased considerably in 
recent years to the point where it is now ram- 
pant,” theCommumstPartynewspapcrPeo 
pie T s Daily said, reporting the crackdown. 
‘■These smuggling cases gready jeopardize 
<$ur socialist economy, sabotage the stable 

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and united (political) situation and adversely 
affect the modernization effort” 

The smuggled goods have gone into the 
expanding black market where they fetch 10 
'times and. more their original cost in Hong 
Kong or Taiwan, draining badly needed fore- 
ign exchange and gold from China and 
undermining what the government calls 
“good social order." • 

“The Chinese are bloody serious about 
smu gglin g now,” a senior British police offi- 
cial ip Hong Kong said. “ We know that they 
haveblown two ships that tried to run for its 
right out of the water and have not bestitated 
to shoot at any sign of resistance. 

“From tneir point of view, smuggling is not 
just economic sabotage, a crime they treat 
severely, but it is fostering and financing the 
development of a criminal underworld that 
will be harder to deal with in the future.” 

The extent of the smuggling is startling. 
From individuals bringing in a dozen or two 
wristwatches and two or three radios or tape 
recorders for resale to relatives or friends in 
Canton. Shangahi. or Xiamen (amoy), it has 
grown into a business estimated at nearly 




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5500 million a year and dominated by the 
triads, the criminal organizations of Hong 
Kong. 

“ We know there are probably more televi- 
sioos smuggled into China than imported leg- 
ally” a Chinese customs officer in Canton., 
said recently, “and die value of the gold 
smuggled out to pay for just the wristwatches 
that have been brought is would buy the 
machinery for a good size factory.” 

When Chinese patrol boats stopped the 
Gundali, a Hong Kong ship, after tracking it 
up the coast earlier this month, the boarding 
party found 60,000 wristwatdies, 600 color 
televisions, 1,000 radio-cassette recorders, 

15.000 folding umbrellas, 24,000 pairs of 
sunglasses, 1,500 nylon jackets, 100 sewing 
machines and 30.000 yards of synthetic 
fabric. 

Chinese customs officials did not attempt 
to put a value on the seizure, but sunglasses 
are word) about $.25 on the black market 
here, a recorder about $800, a watch $100 or 
more and a television about $1,000. 

When another Hong Kong ship. Tianhai 
No. 1, also a fishing junk, was seized earlier, 
customs officials inventoried its goods and 
described the $1.4 million seizure as the 
largest at that time. 

Its holds contained 17.000 watches, 

18.000 yards of doth, 1.600 mosquito nets, 
900 radio- cassette recorders, 150 television 
sets and 18 sewing machines. 

Most of the ships have been seized while 
anchored near offshore islands waiting for 
Chinese fishing boats to come out to them, 
according to official sources, but others have 
been stopped by naval patrols off Fujian, 
Guangdong and other coastal provinces. 
Most have come from Hong Kong, but ships 
from Taiwan and the Portuguese colony of 
Macao have also been stopped. 

“They came aboard shooting — more than 
20 altogether — and threatening to blow us 
up with grenades," said one of the survivors 
from a Hong Kong trawler that returned to 
port with two dead and two injured after an 
encounter with a Chinese patrol boat. "The 
commanding officer asked who owned the 
goods — we had watches, televisions, cal- 
culators, that sort of stuff — and when he was 
pointed out, the officer gave the order and he 
and his partner were shot." 

Hong Kong police believe there is more to 
the incident, pointing out that the Chinese 
policy has been not to shoot unless there was 
resistance. 

“Most of these smugglers are outfitted by 
the triads, if they are not triad members 
themselves, and they often make the mistake 
of thinking they can outrun or even outfight 
the Chinese navy," a Hong Kong police 
investigator said. “It is the triads' involve- 
ment, I think, that has made the Chinese so 
tough now.” 

But Chinese authorities are cracking down 
on smuggling rings inside the country, too. 

In Peking, 39 persons in their 20s. mostly 
the sons and daughters of government and 
Communist Party officials, were arrested for 
smuggling and black marke leering activities 
— the scale was small — 80 watches, 1 2 tele- 
vision sets, 293 electronic calculators — but 
investigators said that the money and gold 
involved was subtan rial, with the profits 
equal to six months’ pay and more for most 

One of the best-organized smuggling oper- 
ations was headquartered in Shanghai, 
involved 25 Chinese officials and 21 Hong 
Kong businessmen and had even begun to 
smuggle limousines and, of all things, bakery 
trucks, before police broke it up. 


as warm as 120 degrees above absolute zero 
(minus 331 degrees F.) 

The Voyager data shows a temperature of 
92 degrees above absolute zero and an 
atmospheric pressure 1.5 times as dense as 
Earth's. Sagan at one point thought the pres- 
sure might have gone as high as 20 times that 
of Earth, which would warm thinks up con- 
siderably at the surface. Stanford Univer- 
sity's Von Eshelznan never thought it would 
go any higher than three times what it is tm 
Earth. 

“Carl and I had a bet that involved a Susan 
B. Anthony dollar," F-<hal»p»ii said. “If flw 
pressure was any more than six times what it 
is on Earth, he would have won. I won the 
dollar.” 

No matter who won the bet. Titan has now 
become a prime candidate for a future space 
mission. One idea already being toyed with is 
to put a spacecraft in orbit around Titan, then 
float a balloon in its atmosphere and land a 
small robot on its frozen ocean surface. If 
Sagan is correct and the ocean is liquid, the 
robot lander would radio that fact that back 
before it sinks into the ammonia- and- water 



FUTURE FUEL: Space engineers at (he American Rockwell Company are planning con- 
struction of a solar satellite that would beam a continuous stream of microwaves to a 
receiving station. 


Egg-sized tumors removed from girl’ s heart 


By Raxane Arnold 

SANTA ANA, California (LAT) — It 
wasn' t that she felt sick, just tired all the time. 

So tired that 16-year-old Vida Uranich 
stopped going out with friends, stopped play- 
ing the sports she loved, stopped opening 
books at all. 

It wasn't that she didn't see a doctor. She 
did, beginning with the first sign of unex- 
plained fatigue. He prescribed thyroid medi- 
cation, iron pills to pep her up. 

What no one understood then — and 
wouldn't for almost two more years — was 
that Vicki's fatigue was symptomatic of 
something much more serious than sluggish 
blood. Two grapelike tumors were growing in 
each of the ventrides of her heart and were 
crowding blood out of that vital organ. It was 
an ailment doctors were hard pressed to rec- 
ognize. None had ever seen it before. 

“There* s never been one like it before in 
medical literature," said heart surgeon Alan 
Gazzaniga, a University of California, Irvine, 
college of medicine professor and part of the 
physidan team called in to treat Vicki. 

“Tumors like that are extremely rare in 
one ventride or the other. But to have them 
in both.. it’s never been seen before as far as 
we can tell. If you'd never see one before, 
you’d never think of it." 

The fifth in a line of six strapping Uranich 
children, Vicki, like most of the others, 
played team sports as a way of life. So when 
Vidd started to falter, people took notice. 


“The coaches were thinking she was dog- 
ging it, being lazy," said Dorothy Uranich, 
Vida's mother. “I thought it was really 
strange that she didn't have the stamina the 
other ones did. I kept going back to the doc- 
tor and be kept saying nothing was wrong.” 

Vidd stopped playing basketball and was 
warned she'd be cut from the Mater Dei vol- 
leyball team unless she started to pick up her 
pace. But her fatigue continued and by this 
fan. it was constant. 

“All of a sudden, she was a recluse,” her 
mother said. “She stopped going places with 
her friends, and I really got worried. I knew 
something was wrong.” 

The Uranichs dedded to take Vidd to 
another doctor late last month. After a quick 
series of blood tests and other diagnostic pro- 
cedures, he focused on Vickf s heart where he 
detected a murmur. An echo cardiogram 
showed something was amiss inside. 

.“I was devastated,** Vida’s mother said. “I 
knew when they said there was a mass, and it 
was something different, that it meant open 
heart surgery” 

“That was the first time I really cried, “ 
Vidd said. “Up until then I was still thinking 
it was in my head. 

“It got to the point where she couldn’t do 
anything at all,” Gazzaniga said “The echo 
cardiogram showed tumors — one as big as a 
small grapefruit, the other the size of an egg.” 
Such cardiac tumors, Gazzaniga explained, 
can either block a heart valve and cut off the 
flow of blood or grow so large that the flow of 


blood into the heart is stemmed In either 
case, exhaustion is the result. 

“When she excerdsed," Gazzaniga said, 
“she couldn't increase her blood flow at all. 
At rest, her heart rate was 100. Normal fra an 
athletic girl like her was 70” 

Vicki underwent open heart surgery at SL 
Joseph Hospital Dec. 5. 

“I didn't want to know what her chances 
were ” Vickf s mother said “The doctor just 
told me it was serious — they’d never had a 
case like this before. Vidd never knew bow 
serious it was." 

It took surgeons little more than two hours 
to remove the tumors. Doctors, her mother 
said, likened diem to “a bunch of grapes the 
consistency of jellied chicken soup.” Tumors 
tike that, Gazzaniga said, are especially 
dangerous. 

“They often break off and cause strokes 
and thin gs tike that,” he said “There was 
serious concern.” Although there was also 
concern that the masses were cancerous as 
well, that possibility was discounted shortly 
after the surgery. 

That was only die first of the good news. 
Vickf s recovery since has been phenomenal, 
her mother said. Three days after surgery, she 
was moved out of intensive care into an 
intermediate care room. A day later she was 
washing her hair, five days later she was 
home. 

“She'll be back to full activity soon,” Gaz- 
zaniga predicted “anywhere from 8 to 10 
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French proposal 

International oil bank 


fliabn«t$Econom 

Sri Lanka 
to establish 


to harmonize policies f ree zone 

. _ ... _ ....... ! T I ^1.1 Inf* F 


PARIS, Jan. 3 (R) — France wants to set 
op an international oil reserve bank to har- 
monize slocking policies and help countries 
{heed with short-term supply problems, an 
industry ministry, spokesman said. 

The plan wouid coordinate international 
stocks to help countries facing oil supply 
problems, just as die International Monetary 
Fund bails out countries with serious balance 
of payments difficulties, ministry sources said 
Friday. . 

The “oil bank” would be an administrative 
structure and would not involve the building 
; of any stocking facilities, they said. A minis- 
; try spokesman said France had suggested the 
idea at a regular meeting of officials from the 


seven major industrial democracies last 
month, but official responses had been 
received. 

He was commenting on a Japanese news- 
paper report which said Japan had endorsed 
.the idea.. 

. The ministry sources said France bad made 
no detailed proposals at the meeting, but had 
suggested consumer countries, and possibly 
producers, could cooperate to preserve sta- 
bility in die oQ market. The sources added 
that the proposed oQ bank would be inde- 
pendent from the International Energy 
Agency (IEA), of which France is not a 
member. 


tJ.S. banks make 1% 
cut in prime rate 


NEW YORK, Jan. 3 ( Agencies) — Several 
major American banks joined the trend to 
' tower prime rates, cutting their base rate on 
business loans by a point to 20.5 per cent. 

; Banking industry analysts said Friday the 
prime rate had peaked at a record 21.5 per 
cent last month and would probably decline 
slowly in coming months. They said demand 
from smaller businesses for loans had drop- 
ped sharply as the prime soared from 15.5 to 
21.5 per cent between November 17 aoB 
December 19. 

Cuts of one per cent were announced Fri- 
day by the largest U.S. bank. Bank of 
America, and by six other major banks. The 
prime rate at a majority of the nation's top 10 


banks now stands at 20 .5 per cent. The prime 
is the rate banks charge their most credit- 
worthy customers. 

The Federal Reserve Board, the U.S . Cen- 
tral Bank, pushed up interest rates last 
autumn to fight inflation by slowing growth of 
the money supply. Many economists warned 
that the high rates would reverse the recovery 
from last year's steep recession. 

The reductions from a record 215 per cent 
rate came almost two weeks after Wells 
Fargo Bank of San Fran risc 9 became the first 
major bank to announce A rate cut on Dec 
22. Since then, a numbeerdf others, including 
Chase Manhattan. Bank, Chemical Bank and 
some smaller banks made the cut. 


U.S. economy holding up 
despite high interest rates 


WASHINGTON. Jan. 3 (AP) — U.S. fac- 
tory orders and new construction increased 
modestly in November, the U.S. government 
said Friday, giving further evidence that the 
economy is holding up despite record-high 
■ interest rates. The economy s strength has 
surprised many forecasters who had been 
predicting a downturn, if not another reces- 
sion. They now foresee a weakening in the 


first half of 1981, but not the sharp decline 
once feared. 

November’s 1 per cent rise in factory 
orders to a seasonally adjusted 759.6 billion 
does mark a continued slowdown in the rate 
of increased orders for manufactured goods 
had dimbed 1.8 per cent in October and 5.5 
per cent in September. 


Saudi Arabian 
Government Tenders 


Authority 


Municipality of 
Dammam 

Directorate General 
of Municipal and 
Rural Affairs. 
Western Province 


Description 


No. oT 
Tender 


Spraying of insecticides and — 
detergents 

Asphalting,- paving and 6 

lighting in Al-Khurma 


Ministry of Health 


Temporary asphalting in a 
rural complex in 
Yanbu At-Nakhl 
IQumination of street in 
Badr with suspension lamps 
Sanitation of Central 
Hospital in Arar 
Sanitation of King Faisal 


5/ M/401 


Closing 

Date 


Jan. 13 


Jan. 12 


Jan. 20 



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JEDDAH ISLAMIC PORT 
SHIPS MOVEMENTS UPTO 0700 HOURS ON THE 
3RD JAANUARY, 1981, 27TH SAFAR, 1401 


Berth 

Name of Vessel 

Agent 

Type of Cargo 

WwiiSTrl 

4. 

Good Challenger 

Alsaada 

Contrs/GenJRice 

30.12*0 

5. 

Al Riyadh 

OcTrade 

Bagged Barley 

31.12*0 

6. 

Nedlloyd Loire 

Algearah 

Pits. F ’stuff sflron 
Bars/Gen. 

2.1.81 

7. 

Eiikon 

Alpha 

Bagged Barley 

28.12*0 

9 : 

Baia De Sao Bras 

O.C.E 

Reefer 

2.1*1 

10. 

Annajm 

O.C.E 

TTIes/TimberiGen. 

General/Haz 

31.12*0 

n. 

Kniepsand 

Abdallah 

Reefer 

31.12*0 

13. 

Soverign Ruby 

El Hawi 

Bagged Barley 

30.12*0 

18. 

Ionian Carrier 

Rolaco 

Bulk Cement 

27.12*0 

21. 

Kalypso 

El Hawi 

Timber 

1.1*1 

22. 

Ming Autumn 

Algazirah 

Steel Pipesdnsu la- 
tors/Griders 

2.1*1 

23. 

Char Hsing 

Abdallah 

Contrs/Gen/Steel 

30.12*0 

26. 

Faro Cadiz 

O.C.E. 

Reefer 

2.1*1 

27. 

Rose Mallow 

Alireza 

Reefer 

27.12.80. 

2a 1 

Frozen Sailor 

O.C.E 

Frozen Chicken 

1.1*1 

30. 

Union Hodadah 

Q.C.E. 

ContrsILoad MTYa 

3.1*1 

38. 

Laura 

O.C.E 

Frozen Chicken 

1.1*1 

3a 

Kea 

Najd 

Loading 

2.1*1 

4T. 

Grand Fair 

O.C.E 

Reefer 

31.12*0 

42. 

Lindel 

Alireza 

Pits. GertXontrs 

2.1*1 

Ro Ro Mercado Gallia 
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AET. 

ContrsTrailers/ 

Mobiles 

2.1*1 


Baia De Sao Bras 

O.C.E. 

Reefer 

2.1*1 


Faro Cadiz 

O.C.E. 

Reefer 

2.1*1 


An am on 

Najd 

To load 

2-1*1 


Mercado Gallia 

A.ET. 

Contreftrailersi 

Mobiles 

2.1*1 


Linden 

Alireza 

Gen/C ontrs 

2.1*1 


Union Hodeidah 

O.C.E 

ContrsJLoad MTYs 

3.1*1 

OdysseusRolaco 

Bulk Cement 

3.1*1 


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DAMMAM 

SHIP MOVEMENTS UPTO 0700 HOURS ON 
27.2.1401/3.1^1 CHANGES PAST 48 HOURS 


2. 

Baglar Kalior 

Alsaada 

General 

1.1*1 

4. 

loannis Manions 

Gulf 

ContlRice 

12.12*0 

10. 

Robin Hood 
(2nd call) 

Gulf 

Loading Urea 

28.12*0 

12. 

Ibn Room 
(1st Call) 

Kanon 

General 

3.1*1 

15. 

Ibn Tufait 

Kenoo 

General 

2.1.81 

17. 

Mare Artico 

Orri 

Bananas 

2.1*1 

IS. 

Amaithea 

Gulf 

Frozen chickens 

2 1*1 

3C. 

Psara Flag 

SMC 

Cement Silco VSL 

1.4.77 

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Uoba 1 Pioneer (D.B.) 

AET 

Bulk Cement 

1.1*1 



COLOMBO, Jan. 3 (R) — Sri Lanka, 
which is trying to build up a free- market 
economy rapidly, has announced that it is 
throwing open a stretch of land to foreign 
investment as an experimental agricultural 
free trade zone a government spokesman said 
Friday the experiment was on the lines of the 
industrial free trade zone set up two years ago 
as the economy was being switched to its new 
direction from a previous mildy Socialist 
path. 

Under the new scheme, fields would be 
opened to foreign investment for the growing 
of fruit, soy a beans, pulses, com, maize, sugar 
canespices and oilseeds, the spokesman said. 

He said Bookers Agriculture (interna- 
tional) of Britain had already offered to setup 
a$ 140 mi Dion factory with a capacity to crush 
3,000 tons of sugar cane a day. Two other 
companies, Hva Holland and Mehta Group, 
an indian- African combine, had also said 
they wanted to start sugar cane projects in Sri 
Lanka and their offers wereljeing processed, 
he said.. 

A committee has been set up-to study what 
incentives to offer foreign investors. 

Sri Lanka's first free trade zone, situated 
near Colombo airport north of here, has been 
hailed by its organizers as a great success. A 
total of 134 projects involving a capital 
investment of about $242 milli on have been 
approved for it. Of these, 26 are 100 per cent 
foreign owned, according to a spokesman for 
the zone. 

About 27 projects are already in produo- 
. tion, exporting a variety of goods including 
ready-made garments, rubber and metal 
products, gloves, rubber shoes and nylon fish- 
ing lines. 

The U-S. company Motorola is. currently 
setting up Sri Lanka' s first electronics factory 
at a cost of $22 million Sri Lanka's move 
i toward a free market economy came after 
President Junius Jaywardene woo the 1977 
parliamentary elections and announced a 
dramatic about-turn for the island state of 
pearly 14.5 milli on people, opening the door 
to foreign investors in much the same way as 
Singapore. 

China to hold 
international 
motor show 

HONG KONG, Jan. 3 (AFP) - China' s first 
major international motor show is to be held 
in die southern Chinese, city of Canton from 
Jan. 9 to 18 attended by leading automobDe 
manufacturers and agents from West Ger- 
many, Italy, France and Hong Kong, it was 
learnt here Satnrday. Exhibits will intfnder : 
models by Alfa Romeo, Audi, BMW, Cit- 
roen. Merced ez Benz, Peugeot, Renault, 
Talbot and Volkswagen. 

A series of technical matters, film and 
demonstrations is also to be held for 
engineers and transport officials. 

The exhibition is sponsored by the Canton 
Machinery and Electrical Appliance Bureau 
and the Canton Foreign Trade Bureau, while 
motor show (China) Ltd. is responsible for 
runnixig the project 

This firm is a joint venture between the 
Hong Kong firms of Goodyear Hopeful 
Enterprises Co., Fung Ping Fan Consultants 
Ltd. and Peonica Trading Company and their 
Hawaii- based partner Mike RosseU and 
Associates. 



* * 



(ATffcrti) 

FRENCH IN GDANSK: A delegation ofFraacb trade unions, CEDT, headed by Edmond 
Main seen gathering in front of the Gd ansk Shipyard Tuesday. 

Wall Street analysts bracing 
for another roller-coaster ride 


NEW YORK. Jan. 3 (AP) — After the 
dramatic ups and downs of interest rates in 
1980, Wall Street analysts are bracing for 
another roller-coaster ride in 1981. 

Government credit controls, imposed last 
March and lifted during the summer, contri- 
buted to last year's wide swings. Any repeat 
of such moves by the government this year is 
considered unlikely. 

Even without those controls, however, 
“interest rates would likely have still been at 
high levels, moving with great volatility 1 , said 
Carol A, Stone, senior economist at Merrill 
Lynch Economics. 

“This is due to the low levels of consumer 
and business liquidity at the beginning of the 
year, growing skepticism of bond market 
investors, and heavy treasury borrowing.' 1 

As 1980 came to a dose, she pointed out, 
“all these factors are still in place — in some 
cases, to an even greater extent.” 

Changes in rates have a direct impact on 
bond prices, and they have long been consi- 
dered a major influence on the stock market 
as well. 

Stock prices defied tradition for much of 
the time in 1980 but late in the year, it was 
evident that movements in rates could still 


exert a powerful pull cm the market. As the 
prime rate dimbed above 20 per cent, the 
Dow Jones average of 30 industrials toqkA 
lOO-point drop in late November and early 
December. Afterwards, as speculation began- 
to stir, the average rebounded more than 70 
points. 

The market managed to keep that rally 
going in die past week, with the Dow Jones 
industrials rising by 6.40 per cent. The New 
York stock exchange composite index slip- 
ped .02 to 78.26, but the American stock 
exchange market value index gained 1.38 to 
355.60. Big board volume averaged 36.47 
million shares a day, against 38. 21 minion the 
week before. 

In the high-risk game of predicting where 
interest rates are headed, most analysts now 
seem convinced that a decline of some mag- 
nitude is approaching, if not already under 
way. 

On Friday, many of the large- American 
banks joined in a decrease in the prime lend- 
ing rate from 21.5 per cent to 20.9 per cent 

“By the spring, we feel that the prime could 
be down to the 15 to 16 per cent level,' 1 said 
Manny Korman, associate director of 
research at Bache Halsey Stuart Shields Inc. 


SUNDAY, JANUARY 4 , 

IMF hikes 
interest 
on SDRs 

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (AP) — The 
International Monetary Fund has announced 
it was increasing to 10,875 per cent the 
ann ual interest rate charged on “Special 
Drawing Rights," the international money 
that it issues to its member countries. 

The new rate became effective Thursday. 
The previous rate was 8.5 per cent. Nearly 5 
biHioa SDRs are given out each year. At the 
current market rate, each is worth about 
$1.27 — a total of some $26,670,000,000. They 
axe created by the IMF and given to member 
countries in proportion to their initial con- 
tributions to the IMF. That means the bulk of 
them go to the United States and other major 
industrial countries such as West Germany, 
Britain and France. Smaller amounts go to 
the poor nations, which have argued without 
success that they should have a larger share. 

The SDRs are used to settle accounts 
among countries. Those countries which hold 
fewer than have been issued to them must pay 
interest on the difference between what they 
originally received and what they hold. 

Typically, these are the poor countries 
which need every resource they can scrape 
together to pay their bills — particularly their 
rising oQ bills. The United States and Britain 
also have used their allocations of SDRs and 
must pay interest. 

Countries which have acquired more 
SDRs than were originally issued to them — 
the oil exporters, for the most pan — receive 
interest on them. This rate has also been 
increased, to 9.78 per cent from 7.65 per 
cent. 

The IMF itself holds about 5 billion SDRs, 
and collects interest, so that it is expected to 
take in an extra $68 million or so next year. 

Beginning Thursday, the value to the SDR 
will be determined by a new calculation. It 
will be worth a total oft 54 U.S. cents, 46 
West German pfenning, 34 Japanese yen, 74 
French centimes and 7.1 British pence. Pre- 
viously, the value of the SDR was determined 
by a “basket” of 16 different currencies. 

| Foreign Exchange Rates 


Qatar has huge gas reserves % 

DOHA, Jan. 3 (R) — Qatar has proven gas vious«timafl5s. Qatar offidafi'a year ago put 

reserves of between 200 and 300 trillion reserves at 31 trillion cubic feet although 
cubic feet, at least one- twelfth of the Imown some industry estimates ranged up to 100 

volume of recoverable natural gas in the trillion cubic feet 

world, a senior Qatari oil executive has said. 


The managing director of Qatar General 
Petroleum Corporation (QGPQ, All Al- 
Jaidah, said the figure was sharply up on pre- 


Jaidah,.a former secretary general of 
OPEC said tire government was studying the 
prospects of exploiting the huge reserves in 
the Qatar northwest Dome gas field, long 
regarded as among the world's biggest. 


India to seek aid from Abu Dhabi 


ABU DHABI, Jan. 3 (AFP) — An Indian 
economic delegation headed by Indian 
Finance and Labor Minister Sant Mahta 
arrived here Saturday for a 48-hour official 
visit, the Emirates’ j News Agency reported. 
On arrival, Mahta said he would meet offi- 


cials of tire Abu Dhabi Arab Economic 
Development Fund on possible finance for 
several projects in India. 

The agency said that ways of developing 
bilateral economic and trade relations would 
also be discussed. 


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Belgian Franc (1,000) 

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Canadian Dollar 

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Demche Mark (100) 

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Dutch Guilder (100) 

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Egyptian Pound 

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Emirates Dirham (100) 

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French Franc (100) 

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Indian Rupee ( J00) 

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Iranian Riyal (100) 

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1226 


Lebanese Lira (100) 


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Moroccan Dirham ( 100) 


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79.15 


Faldstam Rupee (100) 

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33.10 

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Philippines Peso (100) 

— 

— 

4450 


Pound Sterling 

7*8 

7.98 

7.96 


Qatari Riyal (100) 

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91*0 

91.70 


Singapore Dollar 

— 

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156 

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Spanish Peso (1,000) 

— 

4220 

4220 


Swiss Franc (100) 

188.00 

191.00 

185*0 


Syrian Lira (100) 

— 

77.00 

8550 


Turkish Lira (1,000) 


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U*. Dollar 

333 

3335 

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Yemeni Riyal (100) 

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diabnevi’S Features 


The Organization of the Islamic Conference (Parti) 


Economic activities: 
objectives and beginnings 


By a Special Correspondent 

JEDDAH, Jan.. 3 — The Organization of 
the Islamic Conference ( OIC) was set up as a 
political international organization following 
anguish and shock in the Muslim world over 
the burning of one of Islam's holiest shrines, 
the Masjid al Aqsa in Holy Jerusalem. The 
decision to establish the OIC was taken by 
the first summit of Muslim heads of state who 
assembled in Rabat, Morocco, in 1969 to 
demonstrate their determination to streng- 
then the ties of fraternity and solidarity. The 
OIC was envisaged as a platform to cement 
these ties and to work for the political, 
economic, social arid cultural progress of 
Islamic states. 

The initial years of the OIC as an intema- 
' tional organization were devoted primarily to 
safeguarding the holy places under Israeli 
occupation and the recovery of Palestine. 
These objectives remain the focus of its 
present-day activities. However, members 
realized that political cooperation could not 
develop in a vacuum and priority would also 
have to be given to tbe promotion of Islamic 
solidarity in all vital fields of activity includ- 
ing economic cooperation through regular 
contacts and consultation among OIC 
member states. 

Thus the charter of the OIC, which was 
adopted at the third foreign ministeisconfer- 
ence in Jeddah in 1972 defined three impor- 
tant objectives of the organization — to pro- 
mote Islamic solidarity; consolidate coopera- 
tion in the political, economic, social, cultural 
and other- fields; and to create a suitable 
atmosphere for promoting cooperation and 
understanding among member states and 
other countries. 

While the importance of economic cooper- 
ation was realized early, economic questions 
were not tackled seriously until the second 
Islamic summit held in the historical city of 
Lahore, Pakistan. The Lahore summit for the 
first time defined the economic objectives 
and goals of the OIC and the Lahore declara- 
tion listed the aims of the OIC in the 
economic field of activity. 

These inducted the eradication of poverty, 
disease and ignorance from Islamic countries, 
ending exploitation of the developing coun- 
tries, regulating the terms of trade among 
developing and developed countries in the 
field of supply of raw materials and import of 
manufactured goods and know-how, ensur- 
ing the sovereignty and full control of the 
developing countries for their natural 
resources, mitigating current economic dif- 
ficulties of tbe developing countries due to 
increase in prices and the mutual economic 
cooperation and solidarity among Muslin 
countries. . 

Many .of the above ideas, which were being 
voiced, albeit mutedly, by the Third Worid in 
general during the early seventies, soon 
became the rallying cry of the developing 
countries' in their negotiations with the 
developed ones and at international forums 
for the establishment of a new international 
economic order. The Lahore summit is 
described as a historic one since it gave direc- 
tion to the economic activity of die Islamic 
states and helped step up the efforts of the 
developing world in general to protect their 
economic interests, which bad for centuries 
been monopolized by outsiders. 

In reviewing the economic activities of the 
OIC, it must be remembered that almost all 
member states of the Organization are 
developing countries, and as such endure the 
common problems of Third World countries. 
These can be listed as low per capita income. 


over population, inflation, shortage of 
resources or lack of capacity to exploit avail- 
able ones, and a shaky economic infrastruc- 
ture. These problems have become com- 
punded due to the recent global economic 
recession. Nevertheless. OIC member states 
have shown firm resolve and determination 
to overcome these impediments and shown 
remarkable progress in economic coopera- 
tion in the short history of the OIC. 

For proper planning and coordination of 
their economic activities and to attain the 
goals set for by the OIC in the economic field, 
a requisite organizational set-up had to be 
evolved. The beginnings were made at the 
second summit when a committee of rep- 
resentatives and experts from eight countries 
was created to develop recommendations for 
a framework of economic and cultural coop- 
eration. The Committee was later replaced 
by the Islamic Commission for Economic, 
Cultural and Social Affairs originally com- 
posed of IS member states, but subsequently 
expanded to include all OIC members. The 
commission held its first session in Karachi in 
1 977 and since then meets regularly twice a 
year. It exercises the role of supervision, 
coordination and review of the fields assigned 
to it, follows up implementation of projects 
agreed upon and submits fresh proposals to 
the annual foreign ministers conferences. 

A major step taken by the OIC to forge 
economic links was the conclusion of the 
General Agreement for Economic. Technical 
and Commercial Cooperation. The Kingdom 
of Saudi Arabia had taken the lead in moot- 
ing this idea and prepared a draft in 1975 
which two years later was adopted in the form 
of a general agreement This accord covers a 
wide field of economic activity and reflects 
the aspirations of the Islamic countries to 
exert all their efforts, in the context of their 
economic and technical cooperation, to reach 
‘their goals collectively or through bilateral 
and multilateral activities. The general 
agreement provides for transfer of capital 
and investment establishment of joint ven- 
tures, maximum potential for utilization of 
food production and development of exper- 
tise and technology through resear ch, study 
and training. It also seeks to liberalize trade 
and coordinate trade policies, removal of cus- 
toms and tariffs restrictions and holding of 
trade Mrs and exhibitions to develop com- 
mercial ties among OIC members. In short, 
the general agreement is the basis for 
developing and furthering all forms of coop- 
eration in the economic, commercial and 
technical fields. 

In order to give practical shape to the vari- 
ous forms of economic cooperation envis- 
aged by the OIC, a number of specialized 
groups dealing with various sectors were set 
up to make in-depth studies and come up 
with practical and concrete proposals. These 
include the expert groups on trade, planning 
and development, communications including 
shipping and civil aviation, investment and 
reinvestment, food security and joint ven- 
tures. Many of the recommendations of these 
experts already have been shaped into feas- 
ible proposals and some of them are expected 
to be submitted to the third Islamic summit 
for adoption. 

Thus, it is evident that within a relatively 
short span, the Organization of Islamic Con- 
ference has succeeded in evolving a fairly 
organized framework to give practical shape 
to economic cooperation ventures. In recent 
years several specialized agencies have been 
set up for information gathering, data collec- 
tion and preparing specialized studies. 



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What kind of day will tomor- 
row be? To find out what the 
stars say, read the forecast 
given for your birth Sign. 

ARIES 

(Mar. 21 to Apn 19) 

Enjoy a movie or a concert 
with a loved one. Good news 
from a distance. A close ally 
now understands your view- 
point 
TAURUS 
(Apr. 20 to May 20) 

A friendly disposition aids 
you in monetary dealings with 
others. A partner surprises 
you in a nice way. Enjoy 
romance. _- 

GEMINI fug&r 

(May21toJune20) 

You should be pleased with 
your love life. Stars favor 
dose ties, so if you are not 
happy, take the initiative. 
CANCER 
(June 21 to July 22) 

A co-worker may invite you 
over. New inspiration aids you 
in creative work projects. 
Children are helpful. Health 
improves. 

LEO 

(July 23 to Aug. 22) 

Plan to go out and do 
something special. Feelings 
deepen in a romantic situa- 
tion. Hobbies are fun. Enjoy 
togetherness. 

VtRGO mptK 

(Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) 

Add a decorative touch to 
the home. Shopping trips are 


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The bidding: 

East South West North 
Pass 1NT Pass 6 NT 

Opening lead — ten of hearts. 

Some contracts seem to be 
hopeless at one stage or 
another of the play, but quite a 
few of them can be rescued by 
keeping a cool head and direc- 
ting every ounce of your in- 
genuity to the matter at hand. 
Here is a typical case. 

Assume you’re in six 
notrump and West leads a 
heart. You count nine tricks in 
spades, hearts and dubs, and 
therefore need three tricks in 
diamonds. To give yourself 
the best chance tor the slam, 
you win the heart with the ace 
and cash the ace of diamonds. 


North 

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East 

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South 

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dubs, discarding a heart. If, 
West also discards a> hearty j 
• you cash the king of hearts 
and lead the jack of diamonds, 
thus holding West to one dia- 
mond trick no matter what he 
does. If he discards a diamond 
on the king of dubs, you simp- 
ly play the queen of diamonds 
to make the slam. 


by THOMAS JOSEPH 
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11 Athena’s title lBlue 

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13 Sobriquet 2 New York dty 

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favored. Having others visit 
should be most pleasant En- 
joy home life. 

LIBR A J3-2T7E 

(Sept 23 to Oct 22) 

Good news makes you hap- 
py. Your warmth attracts new 
admirers. Creativity receives 

new inspiration. 

SCORPIO HI sfe 

(Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) "t'Otr 
The purchase of art objects 
is favored. You may receive a 
special gift from a loved one. 
Lode into auctions and rum- 
mage sales. 

SAGITTARIUS 
(Nov. 22 to Dec. 21 ) ** 

You’ll fed appreciated by 
others now. A warm and 
friendly disposition attracts 
admirers. Concentrate on 
your appearance. 
CAPRICORN VfO 
(Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Ifcn 

Take time to enjoy private 
and special moments with a 
loved one. The possibility of an 
unexpected visit is strong. 
AQUARIUS 
(Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) 

Social life leads to new 
romantic introductions. Ac- 
cept invitations tor parties. 
You’re also able to further 
your career. 

PISCES 

(Feb. 19 to Mar. 20) A QbA 
You’ll enjoy the favor of 
higher-ups. Business and 
pleasure mix favorably. A 
good time to mix with others 
socially. Enjoy yourself. 


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. EXPERIENCED SECRETARY FOR POSITION WITH 
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TRANSFERABLE I QAM A REQUIRED. 

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WRITE ARABIC AND ENGLISH. 

APPLICATIONS IN WRITING ONLY TO: 

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P.O. BOX 2086, RIYADH 
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JEDDAH. PHONE: 6423931 & 6425717 , 

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Settlement under 
Carter improbable 


TEHRAN. Jan. 3 (AP) — Tehran Radio 
said Saturday it seemed “ totally improbable" 
the hostages will be freed under U.S. Presi- 
dent Carter, again threatened spy trials and 
warned the “Zionist clique of Reagan" unless 
. the President-elect comes up with a solution 



Muhammad Ati Rajai 

Traders tell 
Rajai to go 

TEHRAN, Jan. 3 (AFP) - Traders in the 
Tehran bazaar Saturday charged the gov- 
ernment of Muhammad Ali Rajai with 
“incompetence" and called on the premier to 
resign. 

The call to quit came in a communique 
published in the newspaper of the National 
Front, the secular party led by Karim Sanjabi. 

** We will fight the government with all our 
force to bring it down," Abolhassen Lebas- 
chi. leader of the association of traders, 
businesses and artisans of Tehran, told 
agencc France-Presse. 

“We played a vital role in the revolution 
against the Shah. We financed the revolution 
and published most of the leaflets. We have 
kept this vital role in the current situation." 
said the spokesman for the bazaar, the prin- 
ciple commercial force in Iran. 

“Someone like Rajai. through lack of polit- 
ical and economic experience, and with a weak 
cabinet, could never resolve Iran's prob- 
lems." Lcbaschi said. “Wo know he cannot 
save Iran." 

The prime minister was "unable to prevent 
inflation which is rising while the national 
economy is stagnating" the businessmen’s 
leader added. 

“Printing banknotes can feed inflation, 
while production is falling." he added. As an 
example, Lcbaschi riled *d the case of the 
Peykan car. the knockcd-down British car 
built under licence in Iran. The price had 
risen from 400.UIK) rials to 70(1,000 rials, 
while the builder. Iran National, was no 
longer viable. 

“ We are heading towards a more and more 
catastrophic situation." he said. “The bazaar 
has a duty to lead the national movement, as 
it did under (former Prime Minister 
Muhammad Mossadegh." The movement, an 
Iranian nationalist group, was part of the 
National Front which was founded in 1949. 

Iraq accused of torture 

BEIRUT. Jan. 3 (AP) — Iran charged 
anew on Saturday that Iranian Oil Minister 
Mohammad Jnwad Baquir Tondguyan was 
physically tortured in Iraqi captivity io an 
extent that his spleen hud to be removed. 

rhe new accusation was made by the sec- 
retary of Iran’s acting oil minister, who was 
identified by name. His statement in 
Tehran was reported by the official Pars news 
agency. “Most probably his spleen has suf- 
fered as a result of torture and mistreatment, 
and had to be removed," the secretary was 
quoted as saying. 

He was answering a question about on 
Iraqi newspaper report that the 32-ycar-oId 
Tnnguyan underwent surgery shortly after he 
was captured by Iraqi troops near the embat- 
tled Iranian oil refining city of Abadan on 
Oct. 31. 


now “he would making a great mistake." 

“It does not make any difference whether 
the problem is’ solved during the Carter- 
Democratic Party administration — which 
seems totally improbable — or during the 
term of office of the next Ronald Reagan- 
Republican Party government. If the Democ- 
ratic Party wants to leave this cursed legacy 
for the Reagan administration, the basic issue 
would remain the same," the broadcast said 
as the 52 Americans spent their 427th day in 
captivity. 

"The U.S.A. is obliged to solve this prob- 
lem,” the radio said. “Naturally the problem 
will be solved only if — Western wishful 
thinking to one side — the U.S.A. were to 
accept Iran’s proposals. If the U.S.A. thinks 
that Iran will show more lenience in the mat- 
ter, it is greatly mistaken. It would be better 
for us not to embark on a dangerous experi- 
ment. In such an event the U.S.A. would 
witness the trial of the American hostages 
and the disgrace of the imperialist polices in 
the region and in Iran." 

The radio said because Carter lost to 
Reagan in the U.S. election “he deems it 
unnecessary to haggle for the freedom of the 
hostages but would rather that the problem 
that has defeated him burden Reagan also... 
“What can be forecast is that by Jan. 20, 
when the Carter administration vacates the 
White House for the Zionist clique of 
Reagan, the issue of the hostages will remain 
as it is now, at an impasse. The Reagan 
administration would then have to find a sol- 
ution to it, at the beginning of its term. 

“But, if Reagan does not think up some- 
thing for the issue right now, and relies on the 
wishful thinkin g that the Ir anian government 
might show more leniency, he would be mak- 
ing a great mistake." 

The U.S. government informed Iran this 
week that Jan. 1 6 — four days before inaugu- 
ration day — was the last practical day for 
reaching a settlement with Carter, officials in 
Washington said. 

They stressed, however, that the administ- 
ration actually would need more time than 
that to begin shifting Iranian bank assets and 
to carry out other aspects of a settlement. 
State Department spokesman John H. Tratt- 
ner said Reagan and his aides had indicated 
several times “they would accept any 
arrangements agreed to by this administra- 
tion before they take office." 

However, Reagan presumably could 
decide to scrap the current proposals if an 
agreement is not concluded by inauguration 
day. The president-elect told reporters who 
asked him about the Jan. 16 advisory Carter 
sent to the Iranians. “I think the idea of a 
deadline is a good one." 



(API**) 

NEW OFFER: Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, left, shakes hands with Algeria’s ambassador to Iran Abddharim 
Gtaeraib as Algerian Intermediaries left the State Deportment in Washington Tuesday. The Algerian took a new offer for Iran for the 
release of hostages. Algeria’s ambassador to the U.S.. Refada Makk, is second from left. 

Touch decisions with Soviets 

Reagan to decide on grain embargo 


WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 ( R) — The incom- 
ing Reagan administration mil face some 
tough decisions on the future of agricultural 
trade with the Soviet Union, in particular 
whether to end the grain embargo. 

The partial embargo was imposed a year 
ago in retaliation for the Soviet invasion in 
Afghanistan and President-elect Ronald 
Reagan has to decide whether to lift it if 
Soviet troops remain massed on the Polish 
border. 

President Carter reaffirmed the restric- 
tions this week, extending the embargo 
through 1981. 

Reagan and agriculture secretary- 
designate John Block have promised to re- 
examine the embargo after taking office on 
January 20, with a view to lifting it. Both have 
criticized the embargo for hurting American 
farmers more than the Russians. 

But Block said recently that the curbs 


would end in the right circumstances and 
indicated that they would remain if Soviet 
troops invaded Poland. 

With U.S. supplies tight because of the 
summer drought. Block said he no longer 
favored allowing the Russians to take more 
foodgrains than those already bought for the 
final year of the grain pact between the two 
nations. 

The economic sanctions against the Rus- 
sians, announced last January 4, included an 
embargo on 17 million tonnes of grain for 
shipment last year and a ban on sales of vari- 
ous other farm products. 

But Carter decided to honor the minimum 
terms of the agreement with the Russians 
which provided for eight million tonnes of 
U.S. grain in each of the fourth and fifth years 
of the pact that will expire in September. 

U.S. agriculture department and grain 
trade officials predicted that a new grain 


agreement with the Russians would be 
dosely linked to foreign policy considera- 
tions. and possibly to any new strategic arms 
limitation talks. • 

The officials agreed that U.S. agricultural 
exports would increasingly be tied to interna- 
tional developments, especially in view of 
Block's recent statements on using food as a 
weapon. 

One agriculture department official, 
Thomas Taylor, said the embargo might well 
foreshadow increased government use of 
food as a weapon. . . 

He said the embargo was a greater success 
from a foreign policy point of view rather 
than from an economic one. 

“The Soviet economy has not been 
brought to its knees." he said, noting that the 
Kremlin had been denied only modest’ 
amounts of grain. 



Walesa hints at action 
if Russia intervenes 



(AP pboao) _ 

THE SKULL OF PRE-HUMAN: This is the skull of au anthropoia, Rampithecus, discovered 
Dec. 1 in the Chinese province of Yunnan. China’s news agency Xinhua says scientists believe 
the pre-human skull dates back to some eight million years. 

Binaisa, wife flee country 


KAMPALA, Jan. 3 (AP) — Former 
Uganck) President Godfrey Binaisa and his 
wife Irine have fled the country and are 
believed to be in neighboring Kenya, accord- 
ing to a source dose to the couple. 


NOW, THE FIRST PLANT FOR PRE-CAST 
CONCRETE BUILDINGS HAS BEEN SET-UP 
IN SOUTHERN REGION. 


The cx-prcsident and his wife, released Iasi 
month from house arrest by newly elected 
president Milton Obote. fled the country 
because they felt they were not safe, here, the 
source said., A servant at the house said the 
couple had left Dec. 26. But that he did not 
know their destination. Binaisa’ s 88-year-old 
father, would say only, “Godfrey is all right. 
He has gone with his family to relax some- 
where.” 

Binaisa replaced Prof. Yusuf Lulc as presi- 
dent of Uganda in June 1978 when Lulc was 
voted out of office by the inrerim parliament, 
the National Consulative Council. He was 
toppled from office by the then ruling milit- 
ary commission last May and placed under 
house arrest. 

When Obote assumed power after the 
recent general elections he released Binaisa 
as the First act of his new “policy of reconcilia- 
tion.” Meanwhile. Uganda's Information 
Minister David Anyoti lashed out Friday at 
local and foreign journalists who * rote series 
criticizing his government. Anyoti said a 
number of local journalists and foreign-based 

f ■ • t-.-II • 1 ri-.x •: it l.oill-.'r 

delator Idi A (ini i were .till in • L g-mu.i.' 


TOKYO. Jan. 3 (Agencies) — Lech Wal- 
esa, the leader of Poland* s independent trade 
union movement, hinted that Poles would 
resist if the Soviet Union intervened in their 
nation, the Japanese news agency Kyodo 
reported. 

In a dispatch from Warsaw Friday, Kyodo 
quoted Walesa as saying, “We would be 
ready to act in such a way we would not be 
criticized by the world as cowards" if Soviet 
or Warsaw pact forces moved across Polish’ 
borders to quell social unrest. But Kyodo also 
quuted Walesa as saying he did not believe 
the Soviets would intervene. 

Kyodo said Walesa commented Wednes- 
day during a meeting with Japanese reporters 
at the headquarters of the union Solidarity in 
the Baltic port of Gdansk. 

Diouf may order 
early elections 

DAKAR. Jan. 3 (AFP) — Senegal's new 
President Abdou Diouf could be preparing 
the ground for early elections following indi- 
cations Thursday, the day he was swom in to 
replace Leopold Songhor. that the west Afri- 
can state was to open the doors to new politi- 
cal parties. 

Informed circles here believed that Diouf 
will change the law which now limits the 
number of parties and get the electoral law 
modified accordingly. There has been specu- 
lation that a formed electoral law will give the 
winning party an automatic working majority 
in the assembly and may help Diouf s party. 

The new president's inaugural speech 
seems to have been well received by people of 
Dakar and both business and diplomatic cir- 
cles. some of whom had feared that a period 
of unrest would follow Senghors resignation, 
were reassured hv the choice of Diouf s 
Prime Minister. Habib rhiam. 

In the other end of the political spectrum 
Sheikh Anta Diol. leader of the banned 
National Democratic Rall>\ described us 
positive a speech yesterday by supreme court 
chairman Kcha Mbaye calling for a broaden- 
ing in p* Hi :iud life w. i thin the couiry. 


Meanwhile, the semi-official daily Zyde 
Warsawy, in a series of bluntly-worded arti- 
cles by outside commentators, called for 
more open government by die Communist 
Party and the sacking incompetent officials. 

The articles appeared a day after the Soviet 
news agency Tass said * anti-stidaiist forces’ in 
Poland were trying to use the new indepen-, 
dent trade unions to create a political opposi- 
tion- The Soviet warning appeared aimed at 
keeping up the pressure oti Poland's Com- 
munist leaders and reminding the new unions 
not to challenge the party's monopoly of 
power. 

Official sources seemed surprised by the 
Tass report, noting that its assessment of the 
situation differed markedly from that of Pol- 
ish head of state Henryk Jablonslri in a new - 
year message. 

. Jablonskf s message said there was a new 
sense of national unity in the country and 
made no mention of anti-socialist forces. 


Decades seem to arrange themselves 
under certain headings: most convenient 
for us journalists. 

In the West, the Forties divided them- 
selves neatly between ‘years of destruc- 
tion' 'and ‘years of construction'. Up to 
1945. Europe did its best to level itself to 
the ground. From then to 1950 it went on 
to rebuild itself. 

The Fifties were the years of the 
•Angry Young Men', who thought ifaeir 
elders had betrayed the world to two of 
the most destructive conflicts seen by 
man . Then these same young men, having 
mellowed, became themselves the rulers 
— and what do you know? .Wars all over 
the place, firstly and foremostly the war 
in Vietnam. 

The Sixties also were the years in which 
some nations of the West, notably the reti- 
cent British, seemed to discover sex. Then 
came the Seventies which could be called 
the ‘Years of Number One', of selfishness, 
of the “me" generation. And now the 
Eighties, and already one could say they 
will be known as the ‘Lean Years'. 

In die case of the Arab world, the 
decades, could be seen to start with the 
catastrophe of the Forties, in which most 
of Palestine was lost, and then go down all 
die way. For the Fifties brought the series 
of military coups which snuffed out what 
tittle freedom we enjoyed .Then came the . 
Sixties in which we lost what remained of 
Palestine. Then die Seventies which . 
seemed to augur well with the the October 
War, only to show its true nature a short - 
while later; with the Arabs divided and 
weakened as never before, and with their 
major power, Egypt, signing its separate 
peace with the Israelis. 

As for the Eighties, ithasalready shown 
its hand, and a frightening one it seems to 
be: The Iraqi- Iranian war is already m its 
fourth destructive month, with no end in 
sight—. 

Tanslated from Asharq Al Awsat 

Namibia meet 
maybeputofC 

’ JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 3 (AP) — Radi^ 
Mozambique said Friday night that a meeriiig- 
planned for Luanda, Angola. Saturday to dis- 
cuss southwest Africa may be called off 
because of transport problems. 

The radio report monitored here, quoted 
official sources in Tanzania as saying they 
doubted if the delegations could reach - 
Luanda in time for the meeting. Representa- 
tives of six black African nations were to 
convene in the Angolan capi tal.to formulate a 
joint strategy for next week’f United 
Nations- sponsored peace talks on the guer- 
rilla war in southwest Africa. The countries 
have observer status at the talks. 

The report said that if officials of the six 
nations are unable to meet in Luanda as 
planned, they will confer in Geneva when the 
U-N.-sponsored conference gets under .way 
there, Wednesday. 

Southwest Africa, also known by its local 
name of Namibia, is a former German colony 
whose political status has been in limbo since 
World War I. Wedged between Angola and 
South Africa, it has barely a million inhabit- 
ants and vast vistas of desert. But it is rich in 
minerals such as diamonds, zinc, copper, 
lead, tin and uranium. Rosring Uranium, the 
biggest uranium mine in the world, is located 
there. ■ _ 

Namibia became a spoil of the World War I 
after South Africa invaded it arid captured 
the Kaiser's German garrison ia 1915. The 
old League of Nations gave it a mandate to 
administer the territory in 1920. 

The African States — Angola. Mozarabi- ■ 
que. Zambia, Botswana.- Zimbabwe and 
Tanzania — support the week-long peace 
talks, to be held in Geneva beginning Wed- 
nesday. 


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